The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government.
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc. , in any given historical period.
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.
Great passions are incurable diseases.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.