Rollo May Quotes

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.

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

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.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

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.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

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

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.