Madness And Sanity Quotes - Page 2

• Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Crazy, Odds, Mad

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Crazy, Party

  Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

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• A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Paul Valery

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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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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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Madness

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  Isaac Newton

  Funny, People, Insanity

  "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

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