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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Sep 16, 2025
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
Too much sanity may be madness!
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.