Fritz Lang Quotes

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

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.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

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

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.