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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

by Bruce Feirstein Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

by Isaac Newton Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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Some are born mad. Some remain so.

Some are born mad. Some remain so.

by Samuel Beckett Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini read more

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]

by Euripides Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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Insanity is my only means of relaxation

Insanity is my only means of relaxation

by George Orwell Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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