“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.”
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“Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity is the unity of knowledge, how can it be all that subjective? It is a faith grounded in knowledge.”
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
“For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.”
“Passion rules the arrow that flies.”
“The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”