Act Quote by Leon Bourgeois

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of…

— Joseph Butler

“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

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

— Galileo Galilei

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

— H. G. Wells

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

— Orson Welles

“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them…

— Michael Ende

“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new…

— Frederick the Great

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

— Michel Foucault

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

— Aristotle