#passions

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Love is only one of many passions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#love is #many #only #passions

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#because #become #both #death #good

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. ↗

— Sallust

#best interests #ever #his #interests #man

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

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