feelings Quotes

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

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“The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

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“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

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“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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