I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
