“Inúmeras pessoas, para não dizer todas, apenas se tornam loucas por se terem ocupado em demasia com um objecto.”
︎︎︎ François Sauvages, "Nosologie," in Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage Books, 1965, p. 94. Sauvages was a well-known 18th-century physicist and botanist.
“Many persons, not to say all, succumb to madness only from being too concerned about an object.”
︎︎︎ François Sauvages, "Nosologie," in Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage Books, 1965, p. 94. Sauvages was a well-known 18th-century physicist and botanist.