Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles Mackay 1841 The whole 3-volume work is...
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The chess game opens with the knight holding out his hands, a white piece hidden in one hand, a black one in the other. Death chooses the black pawn (“You are black”, says Block. “It becomes me well.”...
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Letter 58 – Stultitia et miseria hominum The folly and misery of men Marsilio Ficino to Plero Vanni, Cherubino Quarquagli, Domenico Galletti: greetings. You have seen painted in my academy a sphere of...
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Marsilio Ficino to Luca Fabiano, his scribe: greetings. NATURE endows us with many instruments through which we may learn: eyes, ears, noses, taste and touch. But she gave only a single instrument by...
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‘For very truth, I am not fully determined with myself whether I will put forth my book or no. For the natures of men be so divers, the fantasies of some so wayward, their minds so unkind, their...
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