Quote preview background for C. D. C. Reeve
Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are, though it is usually accompanied by such feelings _ trembling and blushing, for example, and the sense of seeing red. It is, in Aristotle__ definition, __ desire, accompanied by pain, to take apparent revenge for apparent insult_.
C. D. C. Reeve
Turn into a Quote Card

Quote Detail

Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are, though it is usually accompanied by such feelings _ trembling and blushing, for example, and the sense of seeing red. It is, in Aristotle__ definition, __ desire, accompanied by pain, to take apparent revenge for apparent insult_.

Quick Answer

What this quote page tells you

This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.

Related Quotes

More quote cards from the same area