Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.