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Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
-Chinese Proverb
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All of us are crazy in one way or another.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
-Proverb
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As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity.
-James Agee
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with Walker Evans, 1941
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
-Aristotle
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
-Samuel Beckett
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
-Rita Mae Brown
Sudden Death ch. 4 (1983)
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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
-Cyril Connolly
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
-William Cowper
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-John Dryden
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
-Nathaniel Emmons
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
-Nora Ephron
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
-Johann von Goethe
attributed; unsourced
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
-Baltasar Gracian
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Far from the madding crowd
-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 19, 1751
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.
-Dennis Hopper
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I teach that all men are mad.
-Horace
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I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.
-Waylon Jennings
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The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself--his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The Undiscovered Self, 1957
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
-Rudyard Kipling
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Books about Insanity
