"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership."
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"There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness."
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
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"Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics."
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"You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter."
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"Insanity is contagious."
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"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
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"I fought with my twin, the enemy within."
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"My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him."
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"Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity."
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"By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego."
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"... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't."
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"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."
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"Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers."
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"If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts."
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"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside."
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"In my madness I see your face in mine."
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
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