"Many that are not mad have, sure,..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.
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“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.”
“Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.”
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“Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.”
“Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”
“Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.”
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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”