| Author |
Quotes |
| Aristotle | No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. |
| Baltasar Gracian | Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. |
| Baptista Mantuanus | It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. |
| Emily Dickinson | Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,--you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. |
| Euripides | But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. |
| Georges Clemenceau | In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. |
| Isaac Newton | I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. |
| James Baillie Fraser | But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. |
| James L Petigru | My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. |
| James O Halliwell | Mad as a March hare. |
| Jean Dubuffet | For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. |
| Oscar Levant | There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
| Samuel Beckett | Some are born mad. Some remain so. |
| Samuel Butler | Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. |
| Yiddish Proverb | All of us are crazy in one way or another. |
| Horatius Flaccus | He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. |
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