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Insanity
- "In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity." - a doctor in Iron Jawed Angels
- "It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination." - Henry Kissinger, in a statement at a National Security Council meeting in 1975.
- "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevailent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient." - The Devil's Dictionary
- "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
- "To lie, of course, is to engender insanity." - Anais Nin
- "The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'" - Robert G. Ingersoll
- "I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." - J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
- GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
- M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teachings as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
- - from the Principia Discordia
- "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." - Niels Bohr
- "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." - Salvador Dali
- "Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. I’m mad but not ill." - Robert Anton Wilson
- "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." - from Fahrenheit 451
- "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier." - H. L. Mencken
- "An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth." - Chanakya
- "...in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them." - Lin Yutang
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