“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“Love calls it folly, what so wisdom saith.”
Nè consiglio d'uom sano Amor riceve.
Canto V, stanza 78 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed." If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.
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“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.”
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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
Variant: I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
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Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
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William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
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“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Letter to B. A. Hinsdale, (21 April 1880), in The Nation's Hero — In Memoriam : The Life of James Abram Garfield (1881) by J. M. Bundy, p. 216 http://books.google.com/books?id=mlTUAAAAMAAJ <br class="br">1880s
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) American politician
James A. Garfield, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 116
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