The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
I had two passions when I was a child. First was to learn about Einstein's theory and help to complete his dream of a unified theory of everything. That's my day job. I work in something called string theory. I'm one of the founders of the subject. We hope to complete Einstein's dream of a theory of everything.
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers. ]
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
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.
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.
Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.
I don't have hobbies. I have passions.