Ian Hacking Quotes

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

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

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

I can access emotions very easily.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

Emotions have no I.Q.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.