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• Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Mind, Naked, Generations

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Form, Sane

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.811, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

  Hubert Reeves

  God, Nature, Men

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Law, President, Humiliation

  Statement at a National Security Council meeting, 1975.

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Littles

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

  Mark Twain

  Insane, Criminal Mind, Riddle

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

  Anuj

  Creativity, Hands, Humanity

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• The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

  Avicenna

  Different, Madness

  The Canon Bk IV

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• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Depression, Ideas, Delirium Tremens

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope.

  Kirsten Miller

  Crazy, Love You, Jealous

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.197, Penguin

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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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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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 12

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

  Nikki Sixx

  Real, Writing, Heart

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• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  Kevin Spacey

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reality, Causes, Contact

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• but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Children, Ignorance, Animal

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.83, Vintage

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• . . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

  Bodhidharma

  Believe, Fall, Teaching

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• I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet, and they've been trying it a year and a half, folks. We're dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." It's not Trump who's insane. Trump's having the time of his life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Balance, Psychological, Thousand

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