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" Quotes and Sayings About passions

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.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Inferno Pass Through Passion
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Among Bed English Excited
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Due More Our Passions
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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Bottom Free Heart Hidden
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Act Boundary Feelings Imagination
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Away Does Moral Passions
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Attacks Head Heart Love
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Chaos God High Made
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Admitted Always Passions Ruled
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Also Attribute Feelings Guide
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Else Lives Most Opinions
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

About Against Anger Directed
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“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”

Get Beyond Great Work
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Time Passions Disposal Expand
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Control Failure Fault Lack
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man God Passion
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Capture Groundwork Heart Lessons
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I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

Believer Find Firm Own
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The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

According Always Circumstances Lead
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Lust Other passions Nervous fluid Life
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Give Indiscriminately Passion suggest
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Ignorant mind Infinite afflictions Passions Greed
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

My friend Dark mystery A maze Conflicting passion
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The path of greatness is different for everyone, you have your own passions, gifts, and talents that will make a positive difference to humanity. Do not be a follower of the majority, live life on your own terms

The path Greatness Different Everyone
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It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

Be thought Cowardly feeling Self preservation Innate
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Bridle passion With logic Justify Law courts
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Love Most selfish All passions
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.

The happiness A man Life Mastery
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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Our passions are ourselves.
Our passion Are ourselves
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

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

View Understanding Temper Passion
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

Man Blames Nature Fate
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Heals Wisdom Soul Passions
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Passions Elevate Soul Great things
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Our true passions are selfish.

Our True Passion Selfish
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Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

Civilization Easily Mob passions Aroused
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Art Poetry Passions Virtue
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

Natural man Passions Get Beget
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