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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
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There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Essays--Conduct of Life--Of Behaviour
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Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
[Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (X, 166)
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It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]
Baptista Mantuanus
Quotes , Source: Eclogue (I)
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My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.
James L. Petigru
Quotes , Source: on being asked the way the Charleston, South Carolina, Insane Asylum
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Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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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.
Emily Dickinson
Quotes , Source: Poems (XI (1891 ed.))
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 565)
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For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Fables--The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 2,387)
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)
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But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
Euripides
Quotes , Source: Fragment (25), (Baine's edition)
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