Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu Philosopher More Lao Tzu Quotes 11
In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 5
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld French Writer More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes 3
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
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. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions. St. Thomas Aquinas More St. Thomas Aquinas Quotes 2
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Marcel Proust French Author More Marcel Proust Quotes 1
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Bodhidharma Indian Leader More Bodhidharma Quotes 1
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes 0
Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. Barton Booth English Actor More Barton Booth Quotes 0
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Horton Cooley American Sociologist More Charles Horton Cooley Quotes 0
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. Anna Julia Cooper American Educator More Anna Julia Cooper Quotes 0
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 0
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 0
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 0
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. Bill Cosby American Comedian More Bill Cosby Quotes 0
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. Joseph Butler English Clergyman More Joseph Butler Quotes 0
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. Joseph Butler English Clergyman More Joseph Butler Quotes 0
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Joseph Butler English Clergyman More Joseph Butler Quotes 0
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Lord Byron British Poet More Lord Byron Quotes 0
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. Joseph Butler English Clergyman More Joseph Butler Quotes 0
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0