For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. Kahlil Gibran
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
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What I propound is true: -- therefore it cannot die: -- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting." ("Eureka") E.A.Poe
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For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;