Have you ever felt so emotional and passionate about something that you felt your passion would overwhelm you? Often times we find ourselves battling and suppressing our passions; yet the longer we fight them the stronger they become. We are constantly trying to destroy our passions because we feel that they are wrong, but we cannot destroy them. Therefore, we need to learn how to control and regulate our passions lest they control and consume us. I have acted on my passions several times throughout my youth. Sometimes it paid off to act on my passions and other times it did not. Every year, month, day, hour, and second I must make a decision whether or not I wish to act on the passions burning inside of my body. My passion is a part of my being as much as it is a part of your being and Frederick Nietzsche in his argument “Morality as Anti-nature” displays this concept beautifully. He believes that our passions make up who we are and they are a sign of how deeply we feel our emotions. He believes that “we are never satisfied merely to state the fact that we feel this way” (723). As humans we feel that we must express the degree’s to which we feel our emotions/passions through our words, expressions, and movements. However, our passions can also cause us to fall “with the weight of stupidity” (Nietzsche 717) and they need to be carefully balanced lest they control us. Morality and religion have been the answer for controlling our passions for centuries yet Nietzsche believes that morality and religion are like the unadmired “dentists who “pluck out” teeth so they will not hurt anymore” (717). Nietzsche is saying that morality and religion are destroying passion and plucking it out of a person so that it will not consume them. Ni... ... middle of paper ... ...trol my passions. Passion can be used as a path to destruction or a path to life. When it is left unregulated it has a tendency to destroy everything around it in its need to achieve what it desires. Acting on our desires can increase or decrease as we age depending on how we restrict our passions. Yet if we are moral or religious those guidelines set can be used as guidelines and regulations on our passions. They inform us when it is correct to be passionate about something, and they tell us when we must let something go of our passions for our sake and others. In the end our passion does not rule us unless we allow it to. Works Cited The Holy Bible.Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2005. Print. Nietzsche, Frederick. “Morality as Anti-Nature.”A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. 8th E.D. 713-727.Benford/St. Martin’s,2010.Print
Dalia Judovitz’s article mentions the sign of passion in the novel. According to the article, she says:
...Hence he concluded that individuals of a society governed by capitalism risked falling into a state of nihilism bereft of meaning. Moreover, the solution he believed was that of a superhuman. A superhuman understands life’s lack of intransience and consequentially looks within for meaning. However, life’s transitory quality results in the superhuman having to constantly recreate in order to overcome the continuously new obstacles thrown at him. Correspondingly, Nietzsche ascertains the quest for satiation of one’s hedonistic insatiable desires, is the greatest strength for a superhuman. This is chiefly due to it being the underlying source for man’s insatiable desire to overcome. Coincidentally, the syntax, as noted by Ginsberg, is one of a pyramidal structure. The monotonic crescendo, symbolizes Solomon’s growing madness and its correlation with a heightened joy.
Charles Darwin says that , “It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as [he] was in [his] life.” (SOURCE). Obsession often causes negative consequences, which in many cases can lead to destructive results. For example, in The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon both novels explore and incorporate how an individual's obsession can often become their downfall, leading to their destruction. Both The Great Gatsby and The Shadows of the Wind demonstrate how an individual’s obsession can lead to their own destruction as well as those around them.
...he exciting fact and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.”
“The strength of belief like that of every other passion is in proportion to the degrees of excitement.
When reading The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Hamlet and The Wife of Bath’s prologue and Tale it is apparent that religion is a very influential theme. For centuries religion has been the main topic of most conversations, yet at the same time the main subject of discussion. I am almost sure that at one point or another you have had conversations about what was right and what was wrong in society, in way or another your input on the subject was determined by your religious belief. Religion during the time these plays were written was very important and you are able to notice since all three plays mention the Bible, different sins or praying and all of these made up a religion. Even if both, Shakespeare and Chaucer were not alive during the same time period they did share the same country of birth and probably the same views on religion. In the Pardoners Prologue, the pardoner benefits from the need of people to seek forgiveness, in Hamlet, Hamlet changed his mind of killing his uncle when he saw him praying, and in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue she turns to the bible attempting to justify herself, all three plays make religion a major part of the development of the story line.
A wise man once said “Man is only great when he acts from passion.” When you hear the word passion, the first thing that might come to your mind is something related to love, and you’re not entirely wrong. According to Merriam- Webster’s dictionary, passion is defined as a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something or a strong feeling (such as anger) that causes you to act in a dangerous way. All in all, it is a strong feeling, be it happiness, sadness, anger or liberality. You can be passionate about many things such as love, sports, food, or intimacy. However, it can also mean having a strong yearning for something.
It is good to be determined and passionate about the things that you are learning and doing, but it is not good to become obsessive about anything. In most cases obsession tends to lead people down the wrong path or cause them to make the wrong decisions in their life. One of the things that people used to be obsessed with was knowledge. This is because people knew so little about the world and about themselves. People were very curious about certain things and some decided to accidentally try things out which led to discoveries. But others decided to become obsessed about the subject that they were studying and destroy their lives in the process. One example is Frankenstein. He was a giant dumb smart person that was also obsessive about science
I believe the question posed by Prebish asking whether sport is a parallel to religion or identical means that sport is very closely related to the same principles. It is an organized institution dealing with faith, discipline, tradition, rituals, and has devout followers, as does the religious institution. When a sport can bring its followers to an experience of the ultimate plateau of complete focus, oneness, devotion, and the quest for salvation, I believe this is identical to religion.
... and that this split is destructive. This separation forces us to act with only one aspect of ourselves at a time. The rational portion is what we act upon if we want to be taken seriously since using emotions or being emotional is equivalent to being out of control and is therefore bad (in today’s heterosexual and patriarchal society). This separation can be seen in our current interpretations of desire as nonrational, as erotic and therefore out of control. True desire however involves reason and emotion, both to determine what we want, reason to help decipher how to attain it and emotion to give us the drive to work towards it. Reason and emotion are inseparable and when we try to separate them is when we end up fragmenting ourselves.
A passion turns into an obsession when it starts to interfere with the living of your life. Obsessions can be overcome, though not easily. Victor had been the monster’s slave for months, doing what the creature asked, doing what was necessary to be free of
Pope John Paul II once said, “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth – in a word, to know himself – so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” (Fallible Blogma) Based on this significant and powerful quote, one can infer that faith and reason are directly associated and related. It can also be implied that the combination of faith and reason allows one to seek information and knowledge about truth and God; based on various class discussions and past academic teachings, it is understood that both faith and reason are the instruments that diverse parties are supposed to use on this search for truth and God. There are many stances and viewpoints on the issues of faith and reason. Some believe that both of these ideas cannot and should not be combined; these parties deem that faith and reason must be taken as merely separate entities. However, this writer does not understand why both entities cannot be combined; both terms are so closely compatible that it would make sense to combine the two for a common task. Based on various class discussions and readings, there are many philosophers and theologians who have certain opinions regarding faith, reason and their compatibility; these philosophers include Hildegard of Bingen, Ibn Rushd, Moses Maimonides, and St. Thomas Aquinas. The following essay will examine each of the previously stated philosopher’s viewpoints on faith and reason, and will essentially try to determine whether or not faith and reason are ultimately one in the same.
According to Sternberg, in a relationship, if passion is the only thing present, then the couples are experiencing infatuation. This could lead to an affair or one-night stands. Passionate love is based on drive. Passion is considered the “hot” component because of someone feeling strong arousal for their partner. With the element of passion comes sexual desire, but it's not all about being physical. It also has to deal with expressing feelings of nurture, superiority, compliance, and
Violent Passion ...It’s the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences.” “But I like the inconveniences.” “We don’t,” said the Controller. “We prefer to do things comfortably.” (Huxley
"All power is from within and therefore under our control." Robert Collier (Byrne, 165). This quote illustrates a certain law, a law that can grant the deepest desires of mans’ hearts. This law is ‘the most powerful law in the universe, the Law of Attraction” (Mullins, ii). There is a way, through this law, that all that one could ever want can be attained, and also all that one would never in their lifetime wish to endure can be avoided. The definition of this law is quite intriguing, not to mention that it is accomplished and run by love, and that the level of negativity in one’s thoughts alone can drastically change the outcomes of what could transpire.