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Mark Twain Quotes about Insanity

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

Mark Twain
Insanity, Degrees, Alphabet
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.268, Univ of California Press

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

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

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Mark Twain
Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain
Men, Perfect, Insanity
Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Mark Twain
Law, Insanity, Want
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

Mark Twain
Law, Insanity, Cain
Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Mark Twain
Insanity, Insane, Mountain
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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

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