#passions

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#enjoy #passions #themselves

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. ↗

— William Osler

#man #natural #natural man #only #passions

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

— Zebulon Pike

#correct #good #passions #weakening #why

Passions are the gales of life. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#life #passions

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

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#because #had #i #other #passions

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience #history #learn #men #metaphysical

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#amiable #dark #exerted #laid #malevolent

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions