His Passions Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
— Laurence Sterne
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to…
— Saint Dominic
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Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with…
— St. Vincent
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are…
— Emile Durkheim
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
— Sallust
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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…
— Swami Vivekananda
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A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot…
— Hugo Grotius
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In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his…
— David Jeremiah
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Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
— Samuel Johnson
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A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions..
— David O. McKay
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Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and…
— Oscar Wilde
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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
— Cyril Connolly
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Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is…
— Benjamin Franklin
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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…
— Bill Cosby
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