“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.