Philosophy on anger
12 passages from 9 thinkers — Bertrand Russell, Buddha, David Hume, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcus Aurelius and others — on anger.
“Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.”
“Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.”
“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.”
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)”
“The wisdom which knows what are and are not dangers is opposed to the ignorance of them”
“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”
“For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.”
“Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.”
“If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.”