John Ruskin book Fors Clavigera
Fors Clavigera, letter xxxvii, (1 January 1874).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
As quoted in New Castle News (9 December 1967)
Context: I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.
John Ruskin book Fors Clavigera
Fors Clavigera, letter xxxvii, (1 January 1874).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
“It is impossible for me to say something foolish without being aware of it.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 6 (p. 154)
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Down By The Salley Gardens http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1476/ <br class="br">Crossways (1889) <br class="br">Context: p>Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;<br>She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.<br>She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;<br>But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.In a field by the river my love and I did stand,<br>And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.<br>She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;<br>But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.</p
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj book I Am That
I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37