For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
Erich von StroheimAbout author
- Author's profession: Actor
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: September 22, 1885
- Died: May 12, 1957
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Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.”
Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason.
But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane.
Voltaire