The Earth and The Ecstacy

No sage should venture to dispute with me until he understands the
following:

the passion of the mind,
the living, toxic flow,
that every act of creation is also an act of destruction,
that intellectual resolve is powerless without the assenting fervor of
the flesh,
that the only true victory is a triumph of the will,
that most people are just pages the authorities write on,
that words are like house slaves and must be chosen very
carefully,
that evil can lurk far beneath a man's persona,
that Id should also eat when times are good because he will be needed
in darker days,
that the enterprise of greatest moment is of the fair shade of
thought,
and, above all, that it is the examined life, not the explosive or the
restrained one, that is most worth living.