Felix Comic

Famous quotes containing the words felix and/or comic:

    Careless credulity makes them the prey of those they trusted; and then they repeat their
    mistake by suspecting all alike.
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)

    What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: “Who am I?”, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: “Am I?” A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)