Quote o' the Day

"Passion is the thing you can't control, by definition...it controls the person, not vice versa."

-                                          —Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog

Comments

[erlik]

Mike, you evil man. You just made me lose half an hour reading the strips. :-)

[Eolake Stobblehouse]

Pretty good. Sometimes Adams says smart things.

Passion is usually regarded as a great boon. But more and more I've come to doubt if it really is.

[Adam Isler]

I know it's been massively overquoted, but Yeats' millenarian comment seems a worthy support to Eolake's post:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

...And then there's Abelard's sic et non...

Adam

[Tim]

And then there is Hume's famous line: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office but to serve and obey them."