Quotes by Insanity My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Herman Melville madinsanitymean Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann heartinsanityhands So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.) Hermann Hesse fantasyinsanityart Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. Horace foolsaneinsanity Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form. Hunter S. Thompson crazyinsanityart Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic. Ian Dury nicesticksinsanity Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. Ian Frazier nonsenseinsanity We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow. Ian Bogost yesterdayinsanitylying If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form. Ian O'Doherty wineinsanitychildren I teach that all men are mad. Horace madmeninsanity Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone. Hunter S. Thompson hippieinsanitysex I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton insanityfunnypeople Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. Henry David Thoreau stayinghouseinsanity My passion for fashion borders on insanity. Isabella Blow passionfashioninsanity Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. Isabelle Huppert actinginsanityway Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. Horace sparesmadinsanity Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. Isobelle Carmody demandsuccessinsanity All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses. Isaac Asimov choiceshumanityinsanity If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together. Jacque Fresco abletogetherinsanity As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity. James Agee sickeducationinsanity«7891011121314151617»
