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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Fingers

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• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Soul, Mixtures

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Strong, Dark

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Creativity

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, True Evil, Law

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

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• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  God, Atheist, People

  "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert Pirsig, 1991.

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• I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

  Libba Bray

  Long, Mind, Should

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• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Knowledge, Mad

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Spices, Madness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fashion, Example, Three

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Genius, Lines, Madness

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• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Health, Despair, Doe

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Simple, Insane, Obscurity

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Today

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• Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

  Sophocles

  Mad, Jupiter, Firsts

  "Antigone". Johnson's ed., line 632, 1785.

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• Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

  Dan Barker

  Real, Believe, Hallucinations

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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.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Differences, People

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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