Emotion
A passion or feeling, such as fear, anger, joy or grief, and its relation to reason and conduct.
Works to read
- The Passions of the Soul by Rene Descartes, 1649
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, 1651 · Great Books
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, 1872
- Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle, c. 350-330 BC · Great Books
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful Narrative by Jonathan Edwards, 1737 / 1741
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 1931
- Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles, c. 450-409 BC · Great Books
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, c. 1592 · Great Books
- Ethics by Baruch Spinoza, 1677 · Great Books
- Phaedra by Jean Racine, 1677 · Great Books
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud, 1920 (English 1922) · Great Books
- St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony by Pierre of Cambrai; Geel tradition, c. 1247; Geel colony tradition from the Middle Ages
Passages
PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an “objective correlative”
— T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
Our task, of course, is to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement, free of emotion and of predilection
— Supreme Court of the United States, Roe v. Wade
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
— T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart; and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him
— Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns
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