Insanity

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Quotes about insanity.

  • "An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth." ~ Chanakya
  • "GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
    M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teachings as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true." ~ Principia Discordia
  • "If we are all insane, then all insanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (except neither of those two amateur-night surgeons were ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you're under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...although it's doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties." ~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)
  • "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." ~ Fahrenheit 451
  • "I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." ~ J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
  • "...in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them." ~ Lin Yutang
  • "Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children." ~ Sam Levenson
  • "It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination." ~ Henry Kissinger, in a statement at a National Security Council meeting in 1975.
  • "To lie, of course, is to engender insanity." ~ Anais Nin
  • "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevailent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  • "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier." ~ H. L. Mencken
  • "The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'" ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
  • "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." ~ Salvador Dali
  • The world of madness is a lot bigger than the world of sane. ~ Charles Manson
  • "Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
  • "You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." ~ Charles Manson
  • "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." ~ Niels Bohr
  • "To clear the mind of its noise then to lose the mind altogether. This is meditation. (Of course some would call this insanity.) ~ Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
  • "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." ~ Robin Williams
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Variously attributed

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


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