#craziness — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The Crusades” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/78827…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #craziness #delusion #era #fad #frenzy #history #humannature #madness #masshysteria #masses #craze
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Now listen while I show you, how the rest
Who call you madman, are themselves possessed.
Just as in woods, when travellers step aside
From the true path for want of some good guide,
This to the right, that to the left hand strays,
And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways,
So, though you’re mad, yet he who banters you
Is not more wise, but wears his pigtail too.
[Nunc accipe, quare
desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, qui tibi nomen
insano posuere. Velut silvis, ubi passim
palantis error certo de tramite pellit,
ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique
error, sed variis inludit partibus: hoc te
crede modo insanum, nihilo ut sapientior ille
qui te deridet caudam trahat.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 46ff (2.3.46-53) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/77207/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #craziness #error #folly #fool #foolishness #humancondition #humannature #insanity #madness #mistake
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Now listen while I show you, how the rest
Who call you madman, are themselves possessed.
Just as in woods, when travellers step aside
From the true path for want of some good guide,
This to the right, that to the left hand strays,
And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways,
So, though you’re mad, yet he who banters you
Is not more wise, but wears his pigtail too.
[Nunc accipe, quare
desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, qui tibi nomen
insano posuere. Velut silvis, ubi passim
palantis error certo de tramite pellit,
ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique
error, sed variis inludit partibus: hoc te
crede modo insanum, nihilo ut sapientior ille
qui te deridet caudam trahat.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 46ff (2.3.46-53) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/77207/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #craziness #error #folly #fool #foolishness #humancondition #humannature #insanity #madness #mistake
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A quotation from Steven Moffat
JANE: Oh, I know about pretending. I once went on holiday and pretended to be twins. It was amazing fun. I invented this mad, glamorous sister and went around really annoying everybody. And d’you know, I could get away with anything when I was my crazy twin Jane.
SALLY: But you’re Jane.
JANE: Kinda stuck. It’s a long story.Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Coupling, 02×09 “The End of the Line” (2001-10-29)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moffat-steven/75878/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #craziness #getawaywith #identity #madness #pretending #selfawareness #twin #vacation #StevenMoffat
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Vaccine skeptic Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump’s #health chief after a close Senate vote
#Trump #Science #Novax #Craziness #Politicss #MedMastdon
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-trump-health-secretary-vote-5dbefeef0537dc241e6fb33b8f2a748b
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It seems to me that most of the books contain too much excessive information. Maybe it is a modern thing, maybe it is just me. So what do you reckon? How do you read these days?
#book #books #reading #readings #modern #reader #learner #learn #education #improving #betterworld #thoughts #yourthoughts #philosophy #edu #newage #newworld #mutualaid #helping #science #sci #figuringout #newbooks #readinglist #craziness
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The question: is everything collapsing around us or are we desperately longing for everything to collapse?
As Haruki Murakami said: Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
So what do you reckon?
#world #apocalyse #people #theendoftheworld #question #thoughts #philosophy #despair #depression #mentalhealth #craziness #help #newworld #science #collapse #society #yourthoughts #share #think #fear #fight #economy #WorldEconomy #crisis #newera #newage #revolution #EatTheRich #harukimurakami #quotes #learning #education #tools #discussion
