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Category: Normality and Madness

1. "The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Hermann Broch, "The Spell"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

2. "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

3. "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger, "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

4. "Life? It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

William Shakespeare

Other categories: Life and Death

5. "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

Phyllis Diller

Other categories: Various

6. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy—the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "A Treatise on Toleration"

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Science and Technology

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

Diogenes of Sinope

8. "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."

Rita Rudner

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

9. "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Mark Twain

Other categories: Human

10. "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

11. "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

12. "The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

Desmond Morris, "The Human Zoo"

Other categories: Various

13. "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

14. "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

15. "From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

Denis Diderot, "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Other categories: Various

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

Oscar Levant

Other categories: Talent and Genius

17. "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Salvador Dalí

18. "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

19. "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

20. "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

James Graham Ballard

Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

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21. "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

22. "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

George Santayana

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

23. "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

Henrik Tikkanen

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

24. "Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

G. M. Trevelyan

Other categories: Anger

25. "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

26. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."

Euripides

27. "Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Robert South

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Various

28. "Never let your mom comb your hair when she's mad at your dad!"

Leo Anthony Gallagher, (showing his bald head)

Other categories: Anger

29. "Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds."

William March, "The Looking-Glass"

30. "Love that is not madness is not love."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Other categories: Love

31. "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."

Cesare Lombroso

Other categories: Talent and Genius

32. "A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on."

William S. Burroughs

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

33. "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

H. G. Bohn

Other categories: Science and Technology

34. "If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce."

Anita Bryant

Other categories: Human

35. "We all are born mad. Some remain so."

Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"

36. "Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

37. "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

38. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

Jonathan Swift

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

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

Albert Einstein

40. "Normality is in the eye of the beholder."

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41. "Insanity is inherited. You get it from your kids."

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Other categories: Family and Loneliness

42. "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


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