Normality and Madness

"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

Ronald David Laing

Normality and Madness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Though this be madness, yet there's method in't."

William Shakespeare

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty,but throughout it maintains the hands of originality, humanity and Almighty."

Anuj Somany

Art and Culture

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.11 (Number of Voters: 9)

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

Ian Fleming

Normality and Madness

Success and Fame

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."

Philip K. Dick "Valis"

Normality and Madness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Man is the only animal crazy enough to climb a summit merely to prove he can do it."

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Human

Normality and Madness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Hermann Broch "The Spell"

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Family and Loneliness

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Shakespeare

Life and Death

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Phyllis Diller

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Voltaire "A Treatise on Toleration"

God and Religion

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Rita Rudner

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mark Twain

Human

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Desmond Morris "The Human Zoo"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Normality and Madness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 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"

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

Denis Diderot "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Oscar Levant

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Salvador Dalí

Normality and Madness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

History and Nations

Normality and Madness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Voltaire "Philosophical Dictionary"

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

James Graham Ballard

Freedom and Servitude

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "On Reading and Writing"

Love

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Santayana

Dreams and Desires

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Henrik Tikkanen

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

G. M. Trevelyan

Anger

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Euripides

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Robert South

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Leo Anthony Gallagher (showing his bald head)

Anger

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William March "The Looking-Glass"

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Love that is not madness is not love."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Love

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Cesare Lombroso

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William S. Burroughs

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

H. G. Bohn

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anita Bryant

Human

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot"

Normality and Madness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid."

Michel de Montaigne

Normality and Madness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Jonathan Swift

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Albert Einstein

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Normality is in the eye of the beholder."

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Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Family and Loneliness

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Art and Culture

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)