We need flowers for the same reason we need poems, or paintings, or songs — because what we can feel will always be infinitely vaster and more complex than what we can name, because words will always break under the weight of the immensities we task them with carrying, will never fully answer the soul's cry for connection, for consolation, for mercy.
Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature's reasoning itself.
4w ago
The mind is so rarely modified by facts; it is modified by feeling, and feeling is modified by art.
The hatred for anything giving us pain, which wreaks itself on the manifest cause, and which leads even a civilized man to kick a door when it pinches his finger, is embodied in . . . doctrines of early Roman law.
1mo ago
The mind is so rarely modified by facts; it is modified by feeling, and feeling comes from the association of ideas.
1mo ago
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
1mo ago
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
1mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
