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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Insanity

PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

3.5 · 40 votes

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

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Baltasar Gracián

WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

3.2 · 52 votes

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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Roy Lichtenstein

PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

3.5 · 59 votes

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

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PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

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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

Insanity

4.2 · 41 votes

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Edgar Allan Poe

WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

4.1 · 60 votes · 149 reads

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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.

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

4.4 · 26 votes · 139 reads

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I teach that all men are mad.

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PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

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

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

3.8 · 30 votes

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

Chinese proverb

3.2 · 23 votes · 160 reads

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.7 · 42 votes · 191 reads
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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
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.0 · 54 votes · 54 reads
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
William Butler Yeats
PoetIrish1865 · 19th century
4.3 · 10 votes · 128 reads
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Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.
Anonymous
4.8 · 63 votes · 79 reads
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
John D. Rockefeller
BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century
3.2 · 27 votes · 29 reads
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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
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.9 · 48 votes · 192 reads
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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
PoetFrench1896 · 19th century
3.7 · 29 votes · 183 reads
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.6 · 35 votes · 46 reads
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Salvador Dalí
PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century
3.0 · 27 votes · 46 reads
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When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.8 · 50 votes · 167 reads
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
Susan Sontag
AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century
4.8 · 28 votes · 149 reads
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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.2 · 17 votes · 56 reads
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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
PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century
3.9 · 28 votes · 45 reads
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