“Tell me this:
why does it happen that at the very, yes, at the very moments when I am most
capable of feeling every refinement of all that is "sublime and
beautiful," as they used to say at one time, it would, as though of
design, happen to me not only to feel but to do such ugly things, such that ...
Well, in short, actions that all, perhaps, commit; but which, as though
purposely, occurred to me at the very time when I was most conscious that they
ought not to be committed. The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that
was "sublime and beautiful," the more deeply I sank into my mire and
the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”
I like
this quote. It reminds me of two books I read exploring several faucets of
neuroscience including the relationship between the creative and the conscious,
and the psychological disorders often found in geniuses. It has always
intrigued me how fine the line is between being considered a genius and being
considered a lunatic. Are those deemed “crazy” really crazy, or is their
madness merely the outward appearance of the “illness” of a very alert, very consciously-aware
genius?
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