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Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's concept ...
In Book 1 Chrysippus begins with the definitions of passion which had been laid down by Zeno. [39] Zeno had written his own work On Passions which had examined emotions based on common opinions held about them. [40] Zeno defined passion as "an irrational and unnatural motion of the soul" and "an excessive impulse". [41]
Passion and desire go hand in hand, especially as a motivation. Linstead & Brewis refer to Merriam-Webster to say that passion is an "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction". This suggests that passion is a very intense emotion, but can be positive or negative. Negatively, it may be unpleasant at times.
The principle of these is that passions, as is suggested by the word’s etymology, are by nature suffered and endured, and are therefore the result of an external cause acting upon a subject. [4] In contrast, modern psychology considers emotions to be a sensation which occurs inside a subject and therefore is produced by the subject themselves.
The first three subdivisions of the instinctive mind are passions, desires, and lusts. The second stage is the intellect, otherwise known as the sharpening of the mind. Someone operating largely out of the instinctive mind would "have only a glimmering of intellect", similarly those who are centered in the intellect would only have an inkling ...
That there are to be found in the sea the forms, not only of terrestrial animals, but of inanimate objects even, is easily to be understood by all who will take the trouble to examine the grape-fish, the sword-fish, the sawfish, and the cucumber-fish, which last so strongly resembles the real cucumber both in colour and in smell. [8]
The Passions an 18th-century poem by William Collins; Passion, (in Italian, Fosca), 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti; Passion Play or Passion, 1981 play by Peter Nichols; Passion: An Essay on Personality, 1984 book by Roberto Unger; The Passion, 1987 novel by Jeanette Winterson; Passion, 2004 Japanese yaoi manga series
[2] "Nathanael" comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל, "Nethan'el", meaning "God has given". [3] The book has three characters: the narrator, the narrator's teacher, Menalque, and the young Nathanael. Menalque has two lessons to impart through the narrator. The first is to flee families, rules, stability.