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Passion Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
- What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
- Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a…
- Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,…
- 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…
- The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not…
- Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those…
- Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker…
- Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting…
- One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like…
- It is impossible to exist without passion
- Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.
- Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion.…
- Faith is the highest passion in a man.
- It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion
- Hope is a passion for the possible.
- Hope is passion for what is possible.
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe