Dennis Prager Quotes

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

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.

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

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

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

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.