Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.