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Sören Kierkegaard309
Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855Related quotes
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch book The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
James Joyce book The Dead
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
“All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force.”
Joseph Conrad book The Secret Agent
Source: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 13
Context: All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.
