"In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at all hostile to these. He is suspicious of them insofar as they represent the corruption of social life (here he follows Rousseau), but he also thinks a variety of feelings (including respect and love of humanity) arise directly from reason - there is, in other words, no daylight between the heart and the head regarding such feelings."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.”
“Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2012). “The True Deceiver”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.”
“As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.”
“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”
“Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.”
“I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.”
“What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.”

Source : "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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