Sometimes a student dedicated to the study of textbooks forgets that feeling plays an even larger role in his life than does reason.  Both the motivation to act and the satisfactions gained from action are felt.  Reason is a good guide and a needed one, but feeling is the dynamics of living.  We love and hate, fear and hope, desire happiness and hunger and thirst after truth and goodness. The feeling aspect of life cannot be gainsaid; it must be fulfilled.  and the arts beckon us to a rich source of deep emotional satisfaction.

Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 84-85)