Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and …

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ✨ Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)
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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ✨ Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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