Passions Quotes

"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."

"Every one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes."

"Neither family, nor children, nor intercourse with others can be rightly ordered until the passions and desires are brought under subjection."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"

"Medicine heals diseases of the body wisdom frees the soul from passions."

"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."