Quotes About Insanity

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Wittgenstein, if I understand him correctly, has a position much closer to that of psychoanalysis; he limits the task of philosophy to that of recognizing the inevitable insanity of language. "My aim is," he says, "to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense." "He who understands me finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless." 12

how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

How could sane people like the ones he had left behind in Phoenix do such a thing—or, how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

What does Jarett really think about the Crusaders? Does he control them? If he doesn't like what they're doing, he should make some effort to stop them. He shouldn't want them to make their insanity part of his political image. On the other hand, one way to make people afraid of you is to have a crazy side--a side of yourself or your organization that's dangerous and unpredictable--willing to do any damned thing.

Laughing on what is not funny is the most craziest thing

Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.

The dog, to gain some private ends,Went mad, and bit the man.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

The same day I figured out the way to fight my insanity: ignore it. I taught myself to treat my madness the way you treat a crazy person you meet on the street-you humor him, nod your head, and move on. 'Move on'-these are the key words. Look and learn, I said to myself, a man goes out of his mind. He can leave it behind and move on. He can take that crazy mind of his and put it away, isolate it, and if possible tie it down-just as they do to crazy people themselves.

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

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

The matter revolves around two questions. What did Shams teach Rumi? What did he give him? The answer is that Shams taught him to free himself from the captivity of reason. This is because reason has limits beyond which would be insanity. However, there is no such limit for the heart and the point of its satisfaction is fanafillah.

The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.

Loyalty to that which does not work, or worse, to a person who is toxic, exploitive or destructive to you, is a form of insanity.

Boyle, who was holding an impromptu news conference in the corner of the hall, stated, "I knew the odds for insanity were bad. He was sick and just didn't realize what was wrong with him. I just hope that now he can live in whatever way he can without suicide.

The insanity trial date was set for January 13, 1992.

Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing.