Emotions

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Topic

Reason and emotion Reason Emotions The heart

Author

Blaise Pascal

Source

Pensées

Medium

Epigram

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1662 1660s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 277.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 277.

Repressing your feelings will only make them stronger.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Topic

Repression Emotions

Speaker

Yu Shu Lien

Actor

Michelle Yeoh

Source

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Medium

Film

Genre

Martial arts (film) Fantasy (film) Martial arts Fantasy

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Directed by Ang Lee, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia/Good Machine International/Edko Films/Zoom Hunt Productions/China Film Co-production Corp./Asia Union Film & Entertainment, 2000.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Topic

Reason and emotion The heart Emotions The mind Reason

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

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Topic

Growing up Emotions

Author

Nikolai Gogol

Source

Dead Souls

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Russian

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Мёртвые души [Dead Souls]. 1842, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls, translated Robert A. Maguire. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 1, ch. 6.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Emotions

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Emotions Youth vs. old age Aging

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

Maybe feelings are feelings because we can't control them.

Team America: World Police

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Topic

Emotions

Speaker

Gary Johnston

Actor

Trey Parker

Source

Team America: World Police

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Comedy (film) Action Comedy

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Team America: World Police. Directed by Trey Parker, Scott Rudin Productions/Braniff Productions, 2004.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Topic

Emotions Yin and yang

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

German

Time

1774 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

I wanna do a lotta things that don’t make sense.

Moonlight

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Topic

Confusion Emotions

Speaker

Chiron

Actor

Ashton Sanders

Source

Moonlight

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Moonlight. Directed by Barry Jenkins, A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions, 2016.

Shit, I cry so much sometimes I feel I’m a just turn into droplets.

Moonlight

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Crying Emotions

Speaker

Chiron

Actor

Ashton Sanders

Source

Moonlight

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Moonlight. Directed by Barry Jenkins, A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions, 2016.

In the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.

The Maltese Falcon

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Topic

Emotions

Speaker

Kasper Gutman

Actor

Sydney Greenstreet

Source

The Maltese Falcon

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Understanding oneself Emotions Courage

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 15.

Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand

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Topic

Reason and emotion Knowledge Emotions

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Topic

Emotions

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 8.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Reason and emotion Reason Emotions

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychological Types

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.

Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food.

Yoko Ono

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Topic

Artistic process Negative emotions Emotions Motivation

Author

Yoko Ono

Source

Twitter

Medium

Tweet

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Yoko Ono [@yokoono]. "Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it...like the salt in your food." Twitter, 27 Mar. 2016, 3:12 p.m., twitter.com/yokoono/status/714168108844523520.