Susan Polis Schutz Quotes

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

Find a balance between head and heart.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

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

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.