Horace Walpole Quotes

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Some things were made to be felt

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things