Insanity

Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves - and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them.

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In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

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It is ambivalence. Because I think that they’re heroic even when they’re crazed. I think that being crazed and obsessed is part of being heroic. You don’t get one without the other. Ambition is something else. It’s not ambition in the material sense. My characters are obsessed with discovery and that does excite me and I do identify with that. A good creative scientist is as good as a good creative artist.

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Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy- that's just the way I am.

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In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity.

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Great wits are sure to madness near alli'd.

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I should really like to think there’s something wrong with me —

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Bugfuck; you had to be crazy like Robert E. Howard or H.P. Lovecraft to write like that.

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You are right, Mr. Bond. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs.

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The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

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Hitler went on to cite “as examples . . . cases in which the mentally ill could only be bedded on sand or sawdust because they continually befouled themselves,” and in which “patients put their own excrement into their mouths, eating it and so on.” Hitler pointed out that in this way “a certain saving in hospitals, doctors, and nursing personnel could be brought about.”

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over tasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad.

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Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

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You know, all insanity is a form of artistic expression, I often think. Only the person has nothing but himself to work with—he can’t get at outside materials to manipulate them—so he puts all his art into his behavior.

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It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history — free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

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There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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Madness and insanity are two terms that are so vague and relative that you can’t really apportion proper values to them. The only thing I can think of that has any use it functional and dysfunctional. Are you working as well? In which case, it doesn’t matter if you are mad.

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I was feeling like madtheir own destinations.

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Without asking anybody’s adviceI turned myself insane.

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In how many mindswhom should I ask?

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I believed all along, just to see me sane.

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I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’t

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We might liken the 'two selves' to Laurel and Hardy. Ollie is the objective mind, 'you'. Stan is the subjective mind, the 'hidden you'. But Stan happens to be in control of your energy supply. So if you wake up feeling low and discouraged, you (Ollie) tend to transmit your depression to Stan, who fails to send you energy, which makes you feel lower than ever. This vicious circle is the real cause of most mental illness.

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Like men condemned to thunderbolts,Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.

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Much madness is divinest sense And handled with a chain.

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For those whom God to ruin has designedHe fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

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There is a pleasure, sure,In being mad, which none but madmen know!

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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.

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Mad as a March hare.

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O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? I am not mad but soon shall be.

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It’s a jungle out there I could be wrong now, but I don’t think so!

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My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.

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Madam, I swear I use no art at all.And pity 'tis 'tis true.

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't

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It shall be so:Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

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I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!For then, 'tis like I should forget myself.

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We are not ourselvesTo suffer with the body.

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Were such things here as we do speak about?That takes the reason prisoner?

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You will never run mad, niece;No, not till a hot January.

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Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

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Mad as a hatter.

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Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers:

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The Royal College has taken a very dubious function of intervening into the inner affairs of national psychiatric associations and using mentally-ill patients for political purposes. I sincerely hope that none of the members… seriously believes that in the Soviet Union mentally-healthy people could be forcibly put into mental hospitals.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

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