“Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Source: Selected Letters
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
Poems
“Mad smoke makes me able to quote
Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.”
Nas Is Coming
On Albums, It Was Written (1996)
“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627).
Copyright is Brain Damage (2015)
These sentences, from an early translation of the book (Griffith and Farran, 1871), have no source in the original French text.
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XLI: The great explosion and the rush down below