Passion Quotes - Page 36

• Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Animal, Curiosity

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119

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• go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

  Dorothea Lange

  Over You, Necks

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hypocrite, Honest, Should

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• Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

  Amy Tan

  Differences, Time Passes

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.26, Penguin

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• It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Music, Song, Heart

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.22

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• Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Men, Being Positive, Suspense

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.213, VM eBooks

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Magic, Movement

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Long, Causes

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

  David Hume

  Jealousy, Violence, Affection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1298, Delphi Classics

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• Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

  David Hume

  Delicacy, Taste, Spheres

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.578, Delphi Classics

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• Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

  David Hume

  Vanity, Degrees, Mixtures

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Affection, Certain

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

  Isabel Allende

  Boredom, Assured

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Two, Liberty, And Love

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.159

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• The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Selfish, Individual Happiness, Rights

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• ... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Littles, Arguing, Born

  Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160

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• It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Heart, Design, Doe

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Mind, Littles

  Joni Mitchell (1998). “Joni Mitchell”, p.125, Giunti Editore

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• To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Long, Desire

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

  Glenda Jackson

  Important, Want, Matter

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• Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

  Pythagoras

  Truth, Men, Evil

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• Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Soul, Mind

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• Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Voice, Giving, Rectitude

  Thomas Chalmers (1857). “On Natural Theology”, p.327

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• Passion is more important than justice.

  Carson McCullers

  Justice, Important

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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