Insanity Quotes - Page 15

• Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Chicago, Crowds, Aspect

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Real, Math

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• Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

  Chris Brown

  Unity, Love Each Other

  FaceBook post by Chris Brown from Jun 23, 2013

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• I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

  Regina Spektor

  Process, Shows, Absolutes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

  Billy Joel

  Crazy, Mind, Arguing

  Song: Movin' Out

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• When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

  Mojo Nixon

  Looks, Littles, Faces

  Song: Elvis Is Everywhere

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• Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Form, Poetry Is

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• When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Crazy, Long, Prove

  Song: Shipwrecked In The 80's

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• Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Dream, People

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• There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Sides, Arguing

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• The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Giving, Mind

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 122-123), 1906.

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• We're playing those mind games together
  Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
  Playing the mind guerrilla.

  John Lennon

  Games, Mind, Together

  "Song: 'Mind Games'". 1973.

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• Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.

  Lucretius

  Suicide, Pain, Needs

  " A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, (Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII), 1945.

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• There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

  Tom Robbins

  Essentials, May, Facts

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.73, Bantam

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• You have to dig SEEEEERIOUSLY deep in Insanity MAX:30!

  Shaun Thompson

  Max

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• Insanity Max 30 is the hardest workout I've ever taught.

  Shaun Thompson

  Workout, Max, Taught

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• The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Care, Hardest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Effort, Acting

  Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”

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• We're going off the rails on a crazy train.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Rail, Train

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• I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years.

  Frank Zappa

  Years, Monitoring, Has Beens

  Song: Time is Money, Album: Sleep Dirt

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• I don't know why I go to extremes.

  Billy Joel

  Extremes, Knows

  Song: I Go To Extremes, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

  Jane Wagner

  Crazy, People, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

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• Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Dragons, Safe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.84, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Insanity is a lack of proportion.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Proportion

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press

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