5 Edmund Burke Quotes on Emotion

Edmund Burke quotes on emotion

25. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.

46. The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.

47. The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

50. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

165. Beauty is the promise of happiness.