Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Music, Piano, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

• When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

• Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1778, Library of Alexandria

• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

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