Great Souls Quotes

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.