Feeling

We decide to do anything because we “feel” like it. If we were strictly rational creatures, it would not be possible to become annoyed, or hungry, or to be sexually attracted to anyone, or inspired to make sweeping social changes, or the next great work of art.

Feeling is the most primal language. It informs our music and art, our poetry. It is the source of any inspiration. How would we even invent without feeling? Without feeling could we have any clue at all what was necessary? If you could not feel, how would you know pain from pleasure? How would you know even peace without a feeling in the core of your being?

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W. Buechner

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

“Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” David Borenstein (Polish artist)