Foolery Quotes

• Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

  William Shakespeare

  Shining, Doe, Sun

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, Stanley W. Wells (1994). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.154, Oxford University Press

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• The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Shows

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• Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

  John Selden

  Atheism, World, Littles

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.132

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  Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

  Hermann Hesse

  Passion, Home, Creative

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Laughing, Soul, Enemy

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.568, Bible Study Steps

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• That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Quitting, Should

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Ambition, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2938, Manonmani Publishers

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• ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Book, Reading

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• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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