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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer
Feelings, Intuition, Determined
'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

Herbert Spencer
Feelings, Essentials, Moral
Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.103, VM eBooks

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Herbert Spencer
Hate, Feelings, Impossible
Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.153, London, D. Appleton

Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.

Herbert Spencer
Men, Feelings, Social
HERBERT SPENCER (1874). “THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY”, p.421

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

Herbert Spencer
Feelings, Doe, Culture
Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works”

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

Herbert Spencer
Children, Cutting, Feelings
Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Herbert Spencer
Art, Expression, Feelings
Herbert Spencer (1868). “Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative”, p.46

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