Vincent van Gogh on emotion

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

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)

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 1, Chapter 13