“Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.”
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Joseph Joubert253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
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Source: Selected Letters
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
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“For that fine madness still he did retain
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Michael Drayton (1563–1631) English poet
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627).
Jules Verne book A Journey to the Center of the Earth
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
Donald Davidson (1893–1968) American poet, essayist, critic and author
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