“ Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
- 733
“ I'm a hopping maniac, and if I didn't have that disciplined channel to pour this maniacal energy into, I'd probably go berserk. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 183
“ Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. ”
- William R. Alger- Copy
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“ If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 90
“ We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
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“ Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope. ”
- Lionel Tiger- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I didn't have a normal background-I was completely demented from a very early age! ”
- Bill Paxton- Copy
- 3K
“ The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential. ”
- Kathryn Hulme- Copy
- 1.5K
“ National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ”
- J. F. C. Fuller- Copy
- 3K
“ 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. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If one were to take that goal out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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