Reason speaks and feeling bites
Interpretation
This quote contrasts rational thought with emotional response, suggesting that both play an essential role in human experience.
Plutarch's quote implies a dynamic interplay between reason and emotion, indicating that while reason can articulate and guide our thoughts, emotions often add depth and urgency to our experiences. It highlights the importance of balancing rational decision-making with emotional intelligence in navigating life's complexities.
In practice
During a motivational speech about decision-making, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of listening to both rational thoughts and emotions.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be β a Christian.
Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
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