Human Passions Quotes

21 Human Passions quotes by 19 unique 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 can’t explain them, and those who haven’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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