Human Passions Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily… — John of Kronstadt
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to… — Soren Kierkegaard
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature… — Bernard Berenson
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. — Nikolai Gogol
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. — Elvis Costello
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… — Adolf Hitler
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them canâ€™t explain them, and those who havenâ€™t known them have… — Michael Ende
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause — David Hume
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral… — John Quincy Adams

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