"As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases."
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"There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
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"A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea."
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"There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon."
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"One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results."
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"All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity."
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"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."
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"...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."
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"The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves."
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"This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there."
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"Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world."
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"The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there."
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"I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free."
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"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."
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"Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
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"Insanity is catching."
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"That's insanity. We must be good all the time."
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"The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now."
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"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles"
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"Is it time for your medication or mine?"
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