Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?
I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste ? croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice.Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.
Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.
have you taken leave of your senses
When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.
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.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
Insanity is catching.
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