Quotes About Insanity

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Religion is collective insanity.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

Inui's insane laughter filled the sanctuary. The ceiling peeled off and shards of stained glass danced through the air. They turned into dead rats, German dictionaries, wineglasses, fountain pens, scorpions, cats' heads, syringes, and a motley jumble of other objects that filled the space, flying around madly, swirling like a whirlwind, surging like a raging sea.

Is it possible that that insanity called love and jealousy does exist, and not only in the idiotic books of the ancients? What seems most strange is that I, I! … Equations, formulae, figures, and suddenly this! I can't understand it, I can't!

We must all go insane—as soon as possible go insane.

O SANITY It's only sane to be insane Psychotic builds a castle And neurotic lives in it I don't know what to do with my sanity When the world's at the verge of calamity O' sanity, o' sanity What am I to do with you Drink up, shoot up, anything you please But you're always standing behind me Like a devil in hell O' sanity, sanity Why don't you let me go? Let go, let go! Cut it out!

While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

There's insanity on both sides of the debate when you argue with an idiot.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?

She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad.

The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person's actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It's a no-win situation. It's a death penalty really.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.

Much learning doth make thee mad.

If there's life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe's insane asylum.