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
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Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.
Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
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