#2,001

A paean to justice intoxicates us, because it seems to us to be an apology for the passion, just or unjust, which blinds us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,073

The most ardent passion does not deceive, if it recognizes the inadequacy of its object.
Love is not blind when it loves madly, but when it forgets that even the irreplaceable loved being is only a mysterious first fruits.
Love that does not believe it is justified is not betrayal, but propaedeutic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 190

#960

The caprices of his passions perhaps save man from the catastrophe toward which he is launched by the automatisms of his intelligence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 173

#542

The individual believes in the “meaning of history” when the foreseeable future appears favorable to his passions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 103

#403

The imbecility of his passions saves man from the imbecility of his dreams.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 82

#236

There is something unforgivably vile in sacrificing even the most foolish of principles to the most noble of passions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 57

#185

The poison of desire is the nourishment of passion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 50