#passions

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Eric Hoffer

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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

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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

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We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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