"When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling."

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Source : "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 143), 1967.

Kenneth Tynan

#Feelings Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Intuition Quotes

“There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.”
“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.”
“I have to admit that Christina is goodâ€”though I donâ€™t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouthsâ€”and so is Peterâ€”though I donâ€™t like giving credit to future psychopaths.”
“'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.”
“When in doubt, do the courageous thing.”
“You can never get enough of what you don't want.”
“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.”
“You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.”

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