"In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength."
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"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."
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"So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us."
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"If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar."
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"Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such."
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"Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions."
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"Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever."
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"It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do."
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"You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!"
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"For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted."
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"All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet."
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"The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return."
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"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
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"The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice."
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"Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves."
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"Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists."
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"It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion."
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"One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that."
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"No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things."
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"For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live."
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