Topic

Heart

Schopenhauer divides head and heart, assigning money to the former and love to the latter — implying that most people get them backwards. Burke on sympathy as the divinest passion of the human heart; Chesterton on the road from eye to heart that bypasses the intellect; Swift's instruction to have money in your head but not your heart. Stanhope notes that men as well as women are more often led by their hearts than their understandings. The collection holds both the warning — do not be led astray — and the counter-argument that the heart knows things the intellect does not, and that the two need each other. Aurelius gives the resolution: accept what fate brings, and love it with all your heart.

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart

Source: Emma (1815)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Source: The Two Paths, lecture 2 (1859)

Wild love, is there anything you cannot force upon the human heart.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing

God, the best maker of all marriages, combine your hearts in one, your realms in one

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.