Voltaire Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Optimism, Madness

• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

• Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Daughter, Mother

  Voltaire (1989). “Voltaire: selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

• What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

  Voltaire

  Perception, Madness, Reason

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.383

• If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

  Voltaire

  Names, Mad, Wish

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