Born Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

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

— John Henry Newman

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our…

— Edward Gibbon

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

— George Eliot

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and…

— Anonymous

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make…

— Erich Fromm

“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

“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

“Elinor made no answer. Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness,…

— Jane Austen

Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant…

— Kenny Smith

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

— Aristotle

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey