Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Don't hide your goosebumps.

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

Behavior shapes emotions.

I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.