"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement;..." - Quote by C S Lewis
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
More by C S Lewis
“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
“Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.”
“The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”
More on Emotions
“Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.”
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”
“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”
More on Reason
“The heart of a statesman should be in his head.”
“Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.”
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”