Insanity Quotes - Page 7

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!