Insanity Quotes - Page 2

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Seeking change always requires a touch of insanity.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.