Virginia Woolf Quotes

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.