Benjamin Disraeli on emotion

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)

I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 49.

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