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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Introduction: “On the Value of Scepticism”
- Thinking
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 135
- Truth & Lies
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
- Life & Death
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HoratioIn context
- Anger
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by KingIn context
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by MalcolmIn context
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Health
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act I, Scene III, spoken by DukeIn context
O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act III, Scene III, spoken by OthelloIn context
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context
I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by MirandaIn context
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Thinking
There are no faces truer than those that are so washed; how much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LeonatoIn context
- Happiness