Desire Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

— John Henry Newman

“Passions consist of conceptualizations. The ultimate non-existence of these conceptualizations and imaginary fabrications--that is the purity that is the intrinsic nature of the mind.…

— Vimalakurti

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

— Aristotle

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

— Jean Royer

A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of…

— Maximus the Confessor

“An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable…

— Rachilde

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

— John Dryden

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like…

— Mardy Grothe

“The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole non-accidental cause.…

— Robert Musil

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.

— Rob Van Dam

“All this is, of course, the old philosophic distinction between reason and passion; but Spinoza adds vitally to Socrates and the Stoics. He knows…

— Will Durant