A Mad & Faithful Telling

Famous quotes containing the words mad, faithful and/or telling:

“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy—the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Plato—who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to “real” people and everyday events—knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)