Mad Idealist

myth:mad_idealist

Here the madness runs deepest: Don Quixote, driven out of his wits by his books into believing himself a knight, tilting at windmills he takes for giants — a madman, and yet his mad faith shames a meaner, saner world. The fool and the madman both see what the sane cannot; folly turns, in him, into a kind of truth, and even a kind of grace. — modern literature