Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
“Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?”
The Dispersion of Seeds (1993)
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Francis Crick
(1916–2004) British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Of Molecules and Men (1966)
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xxiii
Context: Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people? So many of us enjoy taking part in competitions, why not hold a competition of love instead of one that leads to jealousy and envy? If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.
Czeslaw Milosz
(1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"A Song On the End of the World"