Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 93
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.”
Monsieur D'Olive, Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 209)
“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”
"Will, Freedom”
Elements of Physiology (1875)
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
As quoted by Stobaeus, iii.1.18
Letter to his family, Dapitan (c. 1884)
Book IV, Ch. 20, sec. 17
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
“His great passion in the world ought to be a passion for the liberation of men.”
The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974)
Context: It seems to me that the free man, i. e., the man freed in Christ, ought to take parts in all movements that aim at human freedom. He obviously ought to oppose all dictatorship and oppression and all the fatalities which crush man. The Christian cannot bear it that others should be slaves. His great passion in the world ought to be a passion for the liberation of men.
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