“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
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Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre.
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French poet 1821–1867Related quotes
“People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.”
Pt. 2, ch. 12
Calpurnia
Variant: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: I can understand why magicians have such a high insanity rate. We don’t end well, most of us, it has to be said. Paul Daniels might escape the worst effects, but the rest of us are pretty obviously doomed. Once you step over that line, you are in danger from a lot of stuff. Delusion, obviously, being the main thing.
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
Summer, Highland Falls.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)
Blog entry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cindy-sheehan/we-have-the-power_5577.html, August 13, 2005
2005