Quotes with madness

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  • Aristotle No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Seneca Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • André Gide Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
    Original: Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Naomi Wolf Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Michel Foucault Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • George Santayana Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Camille Paglia Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Christopher Morley The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Napoleon The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Hermann Broch The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
    Original: Es ist immer etwas Wahnsinn in der Liebe. Es ist aber auch immer etwas Vernunft im Wahnsinn.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aristotle There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William Hazlitt They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Shakespeare Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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