Passion is not irrationality, just as
our reasons are not antipathies.

Our feelings have nothing against thinking.
Sympathies are not banes of syllogism.

The culture war is about how happy you should be.

If you're not with the warmongers, you're with the terrorists.

Books are not media.
They're right there.

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I love the asocial immediacy of books.

Is it possible to know someone
without respecting
their resentments?

Philosophy helps you to understand how you imagine facts.

Poetry helps you to obey how you imagine acts.

It isn't a balance. There is no scale.

You want clarity in thought
and intensity in feeling;
your emotions should be strong
but your concepts, sharp.

You cannot simply weigh
your passions against your reasons.
You can only move into the light.

Pray or get off your knees.

He said the quiet part out loud. Then, when we got to the hard part, he took it easy.

The person is to politics as the thing to science. The rights of the people. The truth of things.