Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

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

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Out of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

In love unlike most other passions the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

When we through our educational culture through the media through the entertainment culture give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions we are telling them in effect that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.

My fault my failure is not in the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.

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.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

We are people with all the hopes dreams passions and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.