Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e
1920s, The Ego and the Id (1923)
“The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271
Source: The Darkness That Comes Before
“Love calls it folly, what so wisdom saith.”
Nè consiglio d'uom sano Amor riceve.
Canto V, stanza 78 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.”
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Source: Literary Remains, Vol. 1
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Source: Garbled version of c. l 1295 of Despondency Corrected (Vol. 5 of W's Poetical Works on Gurenberg)
The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
1990s and later
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 169
