Knowledges the importance of the passions in our overall…
Knowledges the importance of the passions in our overall happiness and well-being in his final paragraph. It is on the passions alone that all the good and evil of this life depends. For the rest, the soul can have pleasures of its own. But the pleasures come into it, and the body depends entirely on the passions, so that person in the passions can move. Most people are capable of enjoying the sweetest pleasures of this life.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Wonderstuck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz