Passion

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Passion is not a Spiritual Force (1)

What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but ra...
The Glass Bead Game

Knowledge and Passion (2)

Whatever moralists may hold, the human understanding is greatly indebted to the passions, which, it is universally allowed, are also much indebted to the understanding. It is by the activity of the p...
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality


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