Human Passions Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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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
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
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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
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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
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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
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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
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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
— Nikolai Gogol
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
— Elvis Costello
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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…
— Adolf Hitler
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Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
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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
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Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have…
— Michael Ende
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How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Human Passions Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Human Passions Quotes as follows: