Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Quotes

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.