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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.

Sigmund Freud

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All of us are crazy in one way or another.

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

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

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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.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Allen Ginsberg

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I teach that all men are mad.

Horace

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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Peggy Noonan

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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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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.

Mark Twain

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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

William Cowper

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Oscar Levant

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

William Shakespeare

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We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett

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

Mark Twain

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

T. S. Eliot

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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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.

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

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

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

I teach that all men are mad.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

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.

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

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.