Insane Quotes - Page 2

• Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

  Scott Adams

  Reality, People, Society

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• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Atheist, Teaching

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1279, Library of Alexandria

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• America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

  Lester Roloff

  Running, Crazy, Usa

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• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  H. G. Wells

  Education, Appreciation, Witty

  Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  Henry Miller

  Literature, Madness, Profit

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Ninety Nine, People

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

  Billy Joel

  Lonely, Honesty, Insanity

  Song: Honesty, Album: 52nd Street, 1978

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• Train insane or remain the same.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Bodybuilding Training, Fitness Training

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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Insanity, Curiosity, Self Actualization

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

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• Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Exclamation Points, Exclamation Marks

  "The Wit And Wisdom Of Terry Pratchett", www.esquire.com. December 3, 2015.

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Men, Mad

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• I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

  Ben Stein

  Eggs, Shopping, Stuff

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

  Robert Orben

  Humorous, Native American, Profound

  "They Said What?". Manly Daily, August 05, 2008.

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• If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Ifs

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• On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

  Remedios Varo

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

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• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Depression, Insanity

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• The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Locks, Lock Up

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Depression, Reflection, Men

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sane, Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.91, RosettaBooks

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiring, Fear, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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