In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.

When the sword is once drawn the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.

That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites passions and affections.