“There can be no knowledge without emotion †until we have felt the force of the knowledge, it is not ours.” (adapted from Arnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion.

... "There can be no knowledge without emotion ... until we have felt the force of the knowledge, it is not ours." (adapted from Arnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion. The role of emotion has, for a long time, been downplayed in majority of our societies; people try to distinguish and thus diminish its significance by attempting to separate it distinctively from other aspects like 'reasoning'. This is possibly due to the fact that people's emotions do tend to fog our perception and perspective of things at that very moment it is experienced. We know better than to expect an outraged, angry man to reason very well and take right decisions at the heat of the moment. We are more than often advised to 'be reasonable' and to 'control our emotions' rather than 'be emotional'. 'Being emotional' is even taken in a negative way as an

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