
The Third Part, Chapter 36, p. 226 (See also: Glossolalia)
Leviathan (1651)
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 3 Febr. 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 576), p 25
1880s, 1889
The Third Part, Chapter 36, p. 226 (See also: Glossolalia)
Leviathan (1651)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: In my own experience – and this is where we get into the complete madness here – I have only met about four gods, a couple of other classes of entity as well. I’m quite prepared to admit this might have been a hallucination. On most of the instances I was on hallucinogenic drugs. That’s the logical explanation – that it was purely an hallucinatory experience. I can only talk about my subjective experience however, and the fact that having had some experience of hallucinations over the last twenty-five years or so, I’d have to say that it seemed to me to be a different class of hallucination. It seemed to me to be outside of me. It seemed to be real. It is a terrifying experience, and a wonderful one, all at once – it is everything you’d imagine it to be. As a result of this, there is one particular entity that I feel a particular affinity with. There is a late Roman snake god, called Glycon, he was an invention of the False Prophet Alexander. Which is a lousy name to go into business under. He had an image problem. He could have done with a spin doctor there.
“My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.”
Source: Legion
“We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.”
Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre.
"La Fanfarlo" (1847) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fanfarlo
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
Saying 25, Page 6
From Apophthegmata Patrum