George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum."
Lunatic Asylums quotes
Lunatic Asylums
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"America is a lunatic asylum."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum"
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"Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
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"I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum"
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"It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate."
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