Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!
in Michel De Montaigne QuotesOne of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
in Eric Hoffer QuotesIt is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
in George Santayana QuotesIn endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
in George Santayana QuotesBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
in Oscar Wilde QuotesSkill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
in John Ruskin QuotesMatters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
in George Santayana QuotesLove is an alliance of friendship and animalism. if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined. if the latter, gross and sensual.
in Charles Caleb Colton QuotesYou might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
in John Ruskin QuotesMountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
in John Ruskin QuotesThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal
in William James Quotes
