Argument Quote by Hermann Hesse

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls…

— Hermann Hesse

“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not…

— Hermann Hesse

There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and…

— James Martineau

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

— Freya Stark

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

“Those who fully express their soul are peaceful, bold, and confident. They can be peaceful because they know that their essence is eternal, indestructible…

— Ilchi Lee

One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are…

— Vittorio Alfieri

“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all…

— Benjamin Constant

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery