
73
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 165.
73
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 312
Context: I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
“I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind”
Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry
Context: Today I sat before the cliff
Until the mist and rainbows disappeared
I followed the emerald stream
Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs
In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds
At night a bright moon floats in the sky
I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind
"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)
“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”
Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
1960s
The Satanic Bible (1969)
Choice
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles
“God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly”
Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC)
Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon