Louis Malle Quotes

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

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

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.