Passions Quotes
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There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
Blaise Pascal
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.
Ephrem the Syrian
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The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
Edward Lucie-Smith
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Joseph Glanvill
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
Honore de Balzac
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas Hobbes
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
Soren Kierkegaard
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
Aristotle
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.
Blaise Pascal