Martha Nussbaum Quotes

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you dont reflect the entire world around you, then youre leaving something out.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?