Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
"You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We're both extremists. Reality is probably somewhere in between us."
— James T. Kirk to Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of Love and Reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of Love and Reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man
—Rush, "Hemispheres"
"Everyone thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions. Love is a fire, my Knight. Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate. Reason, young wizard, is the opposite of hate, not love."
— Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness, Battle Ground (2020)
"One who lives using pure reason is but a bloodless puppet and one who is pushed and pulled endlessly by emotion is a mere beast. Only those who hold both can be called human. The melding of these two inseparable sides of humanity—indeed, the tapestry woven of joy and despair—is all that delights me!"
—Azwel, Soul Calibur VI
