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How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they can

» Anonymous (-)

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

» Anonymous (-)

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

» Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) Spanish Philosopher, and Writer

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

» Chinese proverb (-)

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

» Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

» John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

» Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

» Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) American painter who was a founder and foremost pr

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

» Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

» Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) French playwright, and poet

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

» Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845) American poet, critic, and short-story writer

I teach that all men are mad.

» Horace (65-8) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

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