#Martha Nussbaum

To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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Tragedy asks us to walk a delicate line. We are to acknowledge that life’s miseries strike deep, striking to the heart of

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Storytelling plays a big role in the process of development. As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how

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Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.

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Intimate relationships are perilous because of the exposure and lack of control they involve. Being seriously wronged is

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Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly

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