“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”
Il y a dans le coeur humain une génération perpétuelle de passions, en sorte que la ruine de l'une est presque toujours l'établissement d'une autre.
Maxim 10.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Science, as an institution, cannot be independent of human passions.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.”
Kurt Hahn website http://www.kurthahn.org/quotes/quote1.html.
Letter to Jonathan Sewall (October 1759)
1750s
Context: Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.
