Sentence examples for passion sentiments from inspiring English sources

Hume was a great champion of emotion and passion—"sentiments," in that era's idiom as part of the rationalizing of what we do.

This is possible by the means of preventive diplomacy because the warring parties are not rational actors and often become gripped by unfounded passions, sentiments and illusions.

In arguably the first modern psychological book about the emotions, the incredibly wide reach of the new category was made explicit: "Emotion is the name here used to comprehend all that is understood by feelings, states of feeling, pleasures, pains, passions, sentiments, affections" (Bain, 1859, p. 3).

William Hazlitt, who was for a time Bentham's tenant, satirised him as a venerable anchorite in the quiet of his cell reducing law to a system and the mind of man to a machine, divorced from the life of spirit, imagination, passion and sentiments of love, a philosophy "fit neither for man nor beast" (1826, 184).

By 1762, Henry Home, Lord Kames, termed "every thought prompted by a passion" a "sentiment" (Elements of Criticism, chap. xvi).

"The pope knows what the passions and sentiments are here, but he is going to go along and do his thing," said Robert Stern, the head of the Vatican's Palestine relief agency.

Impressions of reflection include desires, emotions, passions, and sentiments.

The impressions of sense include all our sensations, as well as perceptions of pleasure and pain; the impressions of reflection include all our passions and sentiments.

Most notably, Hume maintained that a distinctive feature of the passions and sentiments is that they touch, or strike upon the mind more forcibly than other perceptions.

(D, 4.3/159) Why should we not assume that God has other human features such as passions and sentiments, or physical features such as a mouth or eyes (D, 3.13/156, 5.11/168)?

This new mood inclines him again to philosophy, and the Treatise proceeds to topics neglected in the first book, particularly the nature of our passions and sentiments and how they fit us for social life.