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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae read more
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel read more
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
