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Plato
“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings . . . the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with it the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art . . . So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense . . . madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
Plato, Phaedrus

Athanasius Kircher
“The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.”
Athanasius Kircher

Proclus
“Look not upon nature, for her name is fatal.- Proc. in Plat. Th. 143”
Proclus

Amy Schumer
“I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.”
Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Plato
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
Plato, Phaedrus

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