Source: A Sport and a Pastime
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Ein Mensch wie ich kann ohne Steckenpferd, ohne herrschende Leidenschaften, ohne einen Tyrannen in Schillers Worten, nicht leben. Ich habe meinen Tyrannen gefunden und in seinem Dienst kenne ich kein Maß.
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (1895), as quoted in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Vol 3-4 (1967) p. 159
1890s
Context: A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.
“(While playing solitaire and sipping cognac) It's all a lot of crap. The game is up.”
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
(1903–1946) Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for war crimes
To Adolf Eichmann, about the war, at a mountain villa in Austria. Quoted in "The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966
Rufus Choate
(1799–1859) American politician
Speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute (29 September 1854).
Ursula K. Le Guin
(1929–2018) American writer
The House (p. 176)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“283. A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“As with most unwitting servants of the gods, once the game was done so was the servant’s life.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 21 (p. 563)
“She has always ridden the passions as if they were a magnificent horse.”
Edna O'Brien
(1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Anatole Broyard, in the New York Times, January 1, 1978
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