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Quotes about madness
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. (Aristotle )
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. (Aristotle )
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! (Aristotle )
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. (Aristotle )
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. (Aristotle )
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore. (Aristotle )
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. (Aristotle )
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. (Aristotle )
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- (Aristotle )
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? (Aristotle )
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. (Aristotle )
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. (Aristotle )
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. (Aristotle )
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. (Aristotle )
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. (Aristotle )
Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. (Aristotle )
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? (Aristotle )
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. (Aristotle )
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. (Aristotle )
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! (Aristotle )
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. (Aristotle )
In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients. (Aristotle )
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. (Aristotle )
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