There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.
"A minority of one". . . the definition of insanity.
The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?
I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.
You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.