Man is a universe within himself.
Bob Marley
1. "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
Nora Ephron
2. "The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."
Desmond Morris, "The Human Zoo"
Other categories: Various
3. "Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."
Lewis Mumford, "The Culture of Cities"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
4. "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, "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society"
Other categories: Talent and Genius
5. "From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
Denis Diderot, "Essay on Merit and Virtue"
Other categories: Various
6. "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
Oscar Levant
Other categories: Talent and Genius
7. "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
Salvador Dalí
8. "Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer."
Stanley Rudin
Other categories: History and Nations
9. "Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever, and what rage is to anger. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"
Other categories: Various
10. "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"
James Graham Ballard
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
11. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"
Other categories: Love
12. "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."
George Santayana
Other categories: Dreams and Desires
13. "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
Henrik Tikkanen
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
14. "Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."
G. M. Trevelyan
Other categories: Anger
15. "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
16. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."
Euripides
17. "Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."
Robert South
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Various
18. "Never let your mom comb your hair when she's mad at your dad!"
Leo Anthony Gallagher, (showing his bald head)
Other categories: Anger
19. "Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds."
William March, "The Looking-Glass"
20. "Love that is not madness is not love."
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Other categories: Love
21. "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
Cesare Lombroso
Other categories: Talent and Genius
22. "A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on."
William S. Burroughs
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
23. "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
H. G. Bohn
Other categories: Science and Technology
24. "If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce."
Anita Bryant
Other categories: Human
25. "We all are born mad. Some remain so."
Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"
26. "Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
27. "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid."
Michel de Montaigne
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
28. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
Jonathan Swift
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
29. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
30. "Normality is in the eye of the beholder."
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31. "Insanity is inherited. You get it from your kids."
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Other categories: Family and Loneliness
32. "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
Graham Greene
Other categories: Art and Culture
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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