All violent feelings†produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the'Pathetic Fallacy'.

-Ruskin,John
  Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.12.

NempeAmor nihil aliud est, quam Laeititia concomitante idea causae externae; et Odium nihil aliud est, quamTristitia concomitante idea causae externae. Love is nothing else than pleasure accompanied by the idea of anexternal cause; and hatepainaccompanied by the idea of an external cause.

-Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.3, prop.13, note.