Madness Quotes

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Soul, Excellent, Exempt

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Science, Taught, Sublimity

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Great, Genius, Mixture

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rule, Nations, Rare

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

Beauty, Boring, Genius

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, Blame, Everyone

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

Motion, Heavenly, Bodies

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire

Optimism, Miserable, Insisting

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Jealousy, Passion

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

Fear, Human, Writing

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

Wisdom, Greatest, Liberty

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Doubt, Lives

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Lose, Spark, Mustn

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller

Peace, Talk, Wolf

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Genius, Touch

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Before

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Means, Proof

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Done, Far, Face

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Long, Misery, Mankind

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce

Total, Rum, Fiery

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Another, Mad

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Best, End, Find

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Person, Free, Else

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

Follow, Hide, Inner

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Lose, Spark, Mustn

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

Beautiful, Reason, Inspired

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