The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.
Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
When the sword is once drawn the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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.
That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites passions and affections.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections passions and appetites to particular external objects.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.