“If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.”

—  Paulo Coelho

Source: Warrior of the Light

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warr…" by Paulo Coelho?
Paulo Coelho photo
Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Related quotes

Ben Jonson photo

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer

“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts about Life, Death and the Universe
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=aqz4lHgxNNYC&lpg=PP1&dq=castaneda%20wheel%20of%20time&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%22inaccessible%20means%20that%20he%20touches%22&f=false

Seneca the Younger photo

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

“The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.”

Valerie Solanas book SCUM Manifesto

Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 5 (hyphen (not en- or em-dash) so in original).

David Brin photo

“They accepted warriors…” he emphasized, “…That divinely mad type that’s so valuable when needed, and such a problem when it’s not.”

David Brin book The Postman

Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 18 (p. 298)

Antonin Scalia photo

“The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.”

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Speech at the Juilliard School http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/nyregion/23juilliard.html (22 September 2005).
2000s

James Joyce photo

“He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"A Little Cloud"
Dubliners (1914)

Thomas Hobbes photo

“To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.”

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588

On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988)

Aristotle quote: “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
Aristotle photo

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows also what he is waiting for, and while he waits he feasts his eyes on the world. The ultimate accomplishment of a warrior is joy.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

Related topics