“Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.”

“Oh, to be a minion," muttered Giac to himself dreamily. "I was a sub-minion.”

“Emotions are a cancer in one's path to the road of prosperity in life, Emotions Defeat Reason.”

“My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.”

“If you get too emotional, you are ready to be defeated. No manifestation of emotions in the face of logic whenever it comes to the domain of philosophy.”

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”

“If, after proper study, a verse does not clearly convey the circumstances and/or the emotion involved, it is not a haiku.”

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

“Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.”

“The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.”