Marcel Wanders Quotes

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

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

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Basically, I'm an emotional man and a human being.

Regardless of what I was and who I am, above all, the most important thing is to remain human.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.