Passion Quotes

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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. — Eric Hoffer
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as… — Louis D. Brandeis
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. — Ice T
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions… — Ludwig von Mises
But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do… — Byron Katie
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. — T. Harv Eker
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as… — Charles Kingsley
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,… — Alfred North Whitehead
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the… — Michael Faraday
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness… — Alphonse Karr
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere

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