Passion and reason are mutually exclusive categories of action

Evidence

Camus recalls that Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights would be ready to kill everybody to win Cathy - but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. Heathcliff had no makings of a theorist: he did not theorize, nor did he need a theory. He loved Cathy, he wanted Cathy, and that was the only reason he needed in order to kill - that is, if reason he needed. Murder, were Heathcliff to commit it, would have been a crime of passion, and acting out of passion means putting reason to sleep; passion is, by definition, the unreason. When we speak of passion, we also speak of the nonbeing of reason. Passion and reason are at loggerheads: one wilts and fades in the face of the other. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 375

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 375