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Passions Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
- He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will… — Sarah Bernhardt
- Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television,… — Jeff Bezos
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop
- One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but… — Wade Boggs
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan