Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.