Philosophy Quote by Marquis de Sade

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

— Isaac Watts

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

— Nick Gordon

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

— Denis Diderot

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

“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

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it…

— Joseph Joubert

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions

— Anonymous

Passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

— Lucas Scott

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

— Thomas Hobbes