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insanity
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
VALIS
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.'
On Certainty