Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness."
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Madness
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness."
Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"Madness is the acme of intelligence."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them."
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"There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness..."
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"Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them."
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"A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime."
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"madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom"
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"I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere."
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"Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty."
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"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
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"To expect an impossibility is madness."
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"I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism."
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"The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence."
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"Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness"
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"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
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"Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully"
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"Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth."
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"Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty."
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"All extremes of feeling are allied to madness."
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"Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions."
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"Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer."
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
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"If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses"
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