“Long ago we conquered our passions
Looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Prayer," p. 47
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Pit of the Stone”
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Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 131
Context: The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. The instantaneous way this is done shows how we are driven to construct the remainder of the scene. To fill the gaps is essential if the scene is to have meaning. That we may do this in misleading ways — at times in neurotic or paranoid ways — does not gainsay the central point. Our passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and, more important, to experience ourselves as having significance.
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
Source: Leviathan
James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American historian
The Mind in the Making : The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (1921)
“Our true passions are selfish.”
Stendhal book The Red and the Black
Les vraies passions sont égoïstes.
Vol. I, ch. XXI
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)