Tok Emotions
6 Emotion
'We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.'
MARCEL PROUST, 1871-1922
'Conquer your passions and you conquer the world.'
HINDU PROVERB
'The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.'
BLAISE PASCAL, 1623-62
'Philosophy is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.'
F. H. BRADLEY, 1846-1924
'Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling.'
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 1772-1834
'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.'
JOHN KEATS, 1795-1821
'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs... you have probably misunderstood the situation.'
ANON
'Nothing great is accomplished in the world without passion.'
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, 1770-1831
'Laws are only reached by non-logical methods. To make a law one has to have an intellectual love of the subject.'
ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1879-1955
'All emotions were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.'
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 1859-1930 – ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction'.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, 1872-1970
'Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.'
OSCAR WILDE, 18S4-1900
'Reason is always and everywhere the slave of the passions.'
DAVID HUME, 1711-76
Introduction
In Theory of Knowledge the emotions are treated as one of the four ways of knowing, together with language, reason and perception. Since the emotions have traditionally been seen as more of an obstacle to knowledge than a source of it, this may initially seem surprising. There are some good reasons for the traditional suspicion of the emotions; for an angry, frightened or infatuated person is unlikely to see clearly or reason well. That is why we
'We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.'
MARCEL PROUST, 1871-1922
'Conquer your passions and you conquer the world.'
HINDU PROVERB
'The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.'
BLAISE PASCAL, 1623-62
'Philosophy is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.'
F. H. BRADLEY, 1846-1924
'Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling.'
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 1772-1834
'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.'
JOHN KEATS, 1795-1821
'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs... you have probably misunderstood the situation.'
ANON
'Nothing great is accomplished in the world without passion.'
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, 1770-1831
'Laws are only reached by non-logical methods. To make a law one has to have an intellectual love of the subject.'
ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1879-1955
'All emotions were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.'
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 1859-1930 – ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction'.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, 1872-1970
'Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.'
OSCAR WILDE, 18S4-1900
'Reason is always and everywhere the slave of the passions.'
DAVID HUME, 1711-76
Introduction
In Theory of Knowledge the emotions are treated as one of the four ways of knowing, together with language, reason and perception. Since the emotions have traditionally been seen as more of an obstacle to knowledge than a source of it, this may initially seem surprising. There are some good reasons for the traditional suspicion of the emotions; for an angry, frightened or infatuated person is unlikely to see clearly or reason well. That is why we