Sublime

loucura. E assim como diz Platão que em vão um homem equilibrado bate à porta da poesia, assim também diz Aristóteles que nenhuma alma excelente está isenta de um grão de loucura.

Who is the true philosopher, and is he really the most blessed and happiest of men?

every great philosopher actually wrote ‘a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’

In later years, Beauvoir would follow through on her initial impulse, writing a comprehensive four-volume autobiography; this would also be the subject of much critical acclaim. The volumes, published over a fourteen-year stretch from 1958 to 1972, were Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance and, finally, All Said

“Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Capacious