Orts #765

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.
— Erich Fromm, in The Art of Loving (1956)

Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature,…They are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.
— Martha Nussbaum, in Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001)

All great truths are obvious truths. But not all obvious truths are great truths.
— Aldous Huxley, in an essay, Art and the Obvious, in On Art & Artists (1960)