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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
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.]
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
