Emotion In Animals
There is scientific evidence supporting the claim that animals can feel emotions and that human emotions evolved from the same mechanisms.
In recent years, research has become available which expands prior understandings of animal language, cognition, tool use, and sexuality.
Read more about Emotion In Animals: Darwin's Perspective, Basic Emotions Vs. Complex Human Emotions, Evidence
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“In the present state we are in, we find such a strong sympathy and union between our souls and bodies, that the one cannot be touched or sensibly affected, without producing some corresponding emotion in the other.... We are not angels, but men cloathed with bodies, and, in some measure governed by our imaginations.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)