Rene Descartes Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Wonder is the first of all the passions.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Magic, Firsts

  Rene Descartes (1989). “Passions of the Soul”, p.52, Hackett Publishing

• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  Rene Descartes

  Anger, Passion, Self

• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Love Is, Two

• The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Mind, Events

• Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Soul, Training

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