Quotes About Insanity

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum as in the writings of a Cervantes or a Shakespeare, or in the deep psychological insights and cries of revolt of a Nietzsche.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

the possibility of an evil or alien idea coming to inhabit a person, misleading him, perverting him ontologically, driving him to crime or insanity. . .The person born of the idea may be distorted and even destroyed by it.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called diminished capacity and not guilty by reason on insanity. These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally.

What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis...and insanity is the only viable alternative.

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

Ezra Pound had the peculiar distinction of winning an award from the Library of Congress for writing the best poem of the year, in 1948, while government psychiatrists insisted he was insane.)

After we got rolling, we spent two years on it and it got longer and longer and it turned into a general satire on everything we found frightening and contemptible in the world, political extremes and hate groups of all sorts. It turned into a diatribe against the insanity of the human race.

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.

That's all war is - a consuming fever: a period of delirium and insanity, of misery, disappointment, discomfort, anxiety, despair, waste, weariness, boredom, brutality, death; and yet to every man in every war there comes a day worth living for: a day when a lifetime of excitement is packed into a few short hours.

Never try to understand a woman. It will drive you insane, and you still won't understand.

the mad have a grace all their own

The mad have a grace all their own.

People are foolish and bad, especially the French, and are always quickly seduced by power into insanity, and therefore lucky to have any kind of social order whatsoever, but the tougher the better.

Once I faced a female with diamond skin, Nix said breathlessly. I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me. Really? No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses. Except your insanity, Lucia pointed out. sigh. Well played, Archer. then carry on...

Religion is a collective insanity.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.