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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear (Passions Quotes)
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life (Passions Quotes)
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body (Passions Quotes)
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other’s emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees (Passions Quotes)
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction (Passions Quotes)
Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety (Passions Quotes)
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man (Passions Quotes)
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude (Passions Quotes)
I daydreamed for motivation. I didn’t lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it (Passions Quotes)
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom (Passions Quotes)
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made (Passions Quotes)
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves (Passions Quotes)
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers (Passions Quotes)
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them (Passions Quotes)
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person (Passions Quotes)
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man (Passions Quotes)
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one’s own passions (Passions Quotes)
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions? (Passions Quotes)
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge (Passions Quotes)
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them (Passions Quotes)
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health (Passions Quotes)
Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust’s strange inhumanity (Passions Quotes)
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday (Passions Quotes)
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! (Passions Quotes)
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part (Passions Quotes)
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this (Passions Quotes)
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life (Passions Quotes)
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses (Passions Quotes)
If I’d have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot... Everybody has talent. It’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is (Passions Quotes)
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies (Passions Quotes)