“When what feels nothing and doesn't feel oneself, has no desire and no love, is put at the principle of the organization of the world, it's the time of madness that comes, because madness has all lost except reason.”
Michel Henry, Du communisme au capitalisme, éd. Odile Jacob, 1990, p. 220
Books on Economy and Politics, From Communism to Capitalism (1990)
Original: (fr) Quand ce qui ne sent rien et ne se sent pas soi-même, n'a ni désir ni amour, est mis au principe de l'organisation du monde, c'est le temps de la folie qui vient, car la folie a tout perdu sauf la raison.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Michel Henry45
French writer 1922–2002Related quotes
Luce Irigaray (1930) feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Anthony the Great (251–357) Christian saint, monk, and hermit
Saying 25, Page 6
From Apophthegmata Patrum
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.”
Ronnie Radke (1983) American singer
In the song "The Westerner"
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
“And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad.”
Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception (1954)