"Passion is the thing you can't control, by definition...it controls the person, not vice versa."
- —Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog
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Mike, you evil man. You just made me lose half an hour reading the strips. :-)
Posted by: erlik | Monday, 24 November 2008 at 10:15 AM
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.
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Monday, 24 November 2008 at 05:39 PM
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
Posted by: Adam Isler | Monday, 24 November 2008 at 07:30 PM
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."
Posted by: Tim | Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 05:14 PM