Passionate quotes

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.
As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly--our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purbl ...
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or ...
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact ...
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, writt ...
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the thro ...
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of t ...
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the ...
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann ...
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