“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.” KnowsHumansIdeasSoulStatesTogetherMovingPassionIndividualForceImaginationPowerfulMaterialsActivityLogicBoundsJewFactorsFlightNervousManifestationSentimentsConcreteSoleInferiorsInteriorsDeprivedExteriorHuman ActivityExaltationRegulators Author:Kadmi Cohen
“I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.” PeopleWorldNeedsStatesPassionEventsPaintStuckObjectivesShadeRealismPersistentShiftingMy Passion Author:Burton Silverman
“The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.” StatesPassionUnitedMillionsUnited StatesResourcesCollaborationScarceNonprofitsScarce Resources Author:Adam Braun
“But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.” MindStatesPassionPoetReaderExpectedExcitement Book:Imagination in Coleridge Source: Imagination in Coleridge
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.” MenStatesActionLyingOrderPassionBehindsCasesImagineYouthDeedsAtmosphereAccomplishedForgetfulnessAlone Life Author:Georg Brandes