“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
“It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variant: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
Javier Marías
(1951) Spanish writer
Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 30
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)
Frank Crane
(1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
