Quotes About Passions

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?

I'd go so far as to say that I want my own kids to be found by strangers on the Internet. (I'll let that hang there for a moment.) Certainly, I want them to be found by the right strangers, the ones who share their passions and want to learn with them. And I want them to be able to discern between good and bad strangers.

Prayer is a great heart?easer; it breathes out those distempered passions which, being bound up in others, break out when God at any time crosseth them in their wills.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. They are the Midwest's open

Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.

Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes, And chide the wayward passions that rebel: Yet boots it not to think, or to complain, Musing sad ditties to the reckless main. To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell Speaks of the hour that stays not--and the day To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.

God's will for us is that we live out the harmonious expression of our gifts, temperament, passions and vocation in truthful dependence on God.

And lastly Jung states (almost prophetically): A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.... Whenever we give up, leave behind. and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.92

David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which it had unleashed in the country, the tensions and angers just below the surface, the thin fabric of the society which held it all together, so easy to rend.

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. …'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.