by neufer » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:12 pm
Ann wrote:
Wow! I never thought that witch would get to speak Swedish.
Unlike Vally Valrus, vitchs don't usually speak Svedish.
(Note: I am trying to be as informative as possible by teaching folks
__ how to pronounce common useful phrases in other languages.)
Ann wrote:
I really liked the two versions of Latin Spanish. The first one sounded like the witch was stark raving mad and, you know, M-A-D! Like this! Note the spiral eye! The second Latin Spanish version sounded like the witch was sweet and mild, although admittedly somewhat, uh, how do I put it? Slightly unbalanced? Mad in a softer way?
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." - John Dryden
"We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of Art." - Henry James
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." - Aristotle
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I should point out here that, before the lobotomy, I was considered quite the genius. - Art
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http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/52456 wrote:
Psychiatric Times. Vol. XXII No. 7
Are Genius and Madness Related? Contemporary Answers to an Ancient Question
By Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D. | May 31, 2005
Ever since antiquity, thinkers have associated creativity with psychopathology--the classic idea of the "mad genius." By looking at historiometric, psychiatric and psychometric research one can conclude that exceptional creativity is often linked with certain symptoms of psychopathology. Nevertheless, this relationship is not equivalent to the claim that creative individuals necessarily suffer from psychopathology.
The idea that creativity and psychopathology are somehow linked goes way back to antiquity--to the time of Aristotle. Centuries later, this belief was developed and expanded by various psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychologists. For instance, Cesare Lombroso, M.D., argued toward the end of the 19th century that genius and madness were closely connected manifestations of an underlying degenerative neurological disorder. To be sure, this idea has not gone without challenge. On the contrary, humanistic psychologists were inclined to associate creativity with mental health. Nevertheless, the prevailing view appears to be that psychopathology and creativity are positively associated.
So take that, Nurse Ann!
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"Books have led some to learning and others to madness." - Petrarch
"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius." - Marston Morse
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle." - Jonathan Swift
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." - Allen Ginsberg
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton
"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out." - John Glover
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness." - Blaise Pascal
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness." - Aristotle
"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square." - Erich Maria Remarque
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." - Andre Gide
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting." - John Russell
"Sanity is madness put to good use." - George Santayana
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence." - Edgar Allan Poe
"So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way." - David Icke
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness." - Christopher Morley
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes." - Andre Gide
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason." - Hermann Broch
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." - Miguel de Cervantes
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Petrarch
"We derive our vitality from our store of madness." - Emile M. Cioran
"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance." - Theodore Roethke
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." - Graham Greene
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams
[quote="Ann"]
Wow! I never thought that witch would get to speak Swedish.[/quote]
Unlike Vally Valrus, vitchs don't usually speak Svedish.
(Note: I am trying to be as informative as possible by teaching folks
__ how to pronounce common useful phrases in other languages.)
[quote="Ann"]
I really liked the two versions of Latin Spanish. The first one sounded like the witch was stark raving mad and, you know, M-A-D! Like this! Note the spiral eye! The second Latin Spanish version sounded like the witch was sweet and mild, although admittedly somewhat, uh, how do I put it? Slightly unbalanced? Mad in a softer way?[/quote]
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.[/i][/color]"[/b] - John Dryden
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of Art.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Henry James
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]There is no great genius without some touch of madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Aristotle
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I should point out here that, before the lobotomy, I was considered quite the genius. - Art
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[quote=" http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/52456"]
Psychiatric Times. Vol. XXII No. 7
Are Genius and Madness Related? Contemporary Answers to an Ancient Question
By Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D. | May 31, 2005
[color=#0000FF]Ever since antiquity, thinkers have associated creativity with psychopathology--the classic idea of the "mad genius." By looking at historiometric, psychiatric and psychometric research one can conclude that exceptional creativity is often linked with certain symptoms of psychopathology. Nevertheless, this relationship is not equivalent to the claim that creative individuals necessarily suffer from psychopathology.
The idea that creativity and psychopathology are somehow linked goes way back to antiquity--to the time of Aristotle. Centuries later, this belief was developed and expanded by various psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychologists. For instance, Cesare Lombroso, M.D., argued toward the end of the 19th century that genius and madness were closely connected manifestations of an underlying degenerative neurological disorder. To be sure, this idea has not gone without challenge. On the contrary, humanistic psychologists were inclined to associate creativity with mental health. Nevertheless, the prevailing view appears to be that psychopathology and creativity are positively associated.[/color][/quote]
[c][size=200][color=#0000FF]So take that, Nurse Ann![/color] :p: [/size][/c]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Books have led some to learning and others to madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Petrarch
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Marston Morse
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.[/i][/color]"[/b] - David Cronenberg
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Jonathan Swift
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Allen Ginsberg
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Isaac Newton
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.[/i][/color]"[/b] - John Glover
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Blaise Pascal
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Aristotle
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Erich Maria Remarque
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Andre Gide
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.[/i][/color]"[/b] - John Russell
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Sanity is madness put to good use.[/i][/color]"[/b] - George Santayana
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Edgar Allan Poe
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.[/i][/color]"[/b] - David Icke
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Christopher Morley
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Andre Gide
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Hermann Broch
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Miguel de Cervantes
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Petrarch
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]We derive our vitality from our store of madness.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Emile M. Cioran
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Theodore Roethke
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Graham Greene
[b]"[color=#0000FF][i]You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.[/i][/color]"[/b] - Robin Williams