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"With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved."
"Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions."
"The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it."
"People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations."
"When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love."
"Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same."
"When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there."
"However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion."
"Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion."
"On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room."
"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
"I think there's often a negative associated with being passionate or geeky about entertainment, but for me, entertainment has always been a greater, psychological escape, so I think it's unfortunate when others don't appreciate the depth of passion entertainment offers."
"Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows."
"When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious."
"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."
"Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide."
"How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]"
"Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being."
"Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality."
"I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people."
