Quotes About Passions

Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.

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

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

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.

Dehumanization isn't a way of talking. It's a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.