emotional evaluation Quotes

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?

The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.