Passions

Examples

• The mind is occupied by the multitude of the objects, and by the strong passions, that display themselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A fit of the gout produces a long train of passions, as grief, hope, fear; but is not derived immediately from any affection or idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Let us consider to what principle we can ascribe these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And what opiate for his severe sufferings--what object for his strong passions--had he sought there? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The difference in the passions is a clear proof of a like difference in those ideas, from which the passions are derived. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What power this woman has to keep these raging passions down! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The difficulty then is, why any objects ever cause pure love or hatred, and produce not always the mixt passions of respect and contempt. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The same frivolous passions, which influence their conduct, influence his. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The passions of love and hatred are always followed by, or rather conjoined with benevolence and anger. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A bas les grandes passions et les sévères vertus! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This difference in the imagination has a suitable effect on the passions; and this effect is augmented by another circumstance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This principle is very remarkable, because it is analogous to what we have observed both concerning the understanding and the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This, however, is not the effect of any contract, but of the accidental concurrence of their passions in the same object at that particular time. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But he who has the courage of existence will put it triumphantly, crying yea as Nietzsche did, and recognizing that all the passions of men are the motive powers of a fine life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The straining of the imagination always hinders the regular flowing of the passions and sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is true, few can form exact systems of the passions, or make reflections on their general nature and resemblances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The passions, by being too much conversant with earthly objects, can never fix in us a proper composure and acquiescence of mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Man's nature, brimful of passions and affections, would have had an home in that little heart, whose swift pulsations hurried towards their close. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My passions are my masters; my smallest impulse my tyrant. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This happens, among other cases, whenever any object excites contrary passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• My passions were now roused in a peculiar manner, and, catching hold of my bell, I never ceased ringing it till my maid appeared. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Envy and malice are passions very remarkable in animals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is evident, then, that one of these passions must arise from the love or hatred. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These passions are moved by degrees of liveliness and strength, which are inferior to belief, and independent of the real existence of their objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She struck me as a woman of very violent passions, combined with an extremely shy and reserved disposition. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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