“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: The Wealth of Nations
“The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves.”
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Context: The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
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Matthew Arnold book Culture and Anarchy
Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
Context: The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
“Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world”
Stephen R. Donaldson (1947) Novelist
Lord Mhoram, The Power That Preserves
“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book IV, line 637 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)