Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 8. (1850).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet
No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“It’s certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
St. 3 <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/ <br class="br">Context: It’s certain there is no fine thing<br>Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.<br>There have been lovers who thought love should be<br>So much compounded of high courtesy<br>That they would sigh and quote with learned looks<br>Precedents out of beautiful old books;<br>Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: 1980s–1990s, A Conflict of Visions (1987), Ch. 1 : The Role of Vision
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“There are certain truths that, in themselves, are as dangerous as any advanced technology.”
Alastair Reynolds book Pushing Ice
Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 30 (p. 435)
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”
Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
