Bertrand Russell Quotes

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

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

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

You need emotional content.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

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

It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I have no human feelings.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

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

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

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.