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stupid." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not
know." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be
known." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what
I think you think I am." | |
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Bleiberg and Leubling
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| "I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad." | |
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Anacreon
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| "I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of
the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in
romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more
impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of
calmness and reason." | |
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Philippe Pinel
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| "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked." | |
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Alan Ginsberg
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| "I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than
to be sane and have one"s doubts." | |
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George Brown Burgin
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| "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane
and have one"s doubts." | |
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G. B. Burgin
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| "Mad as a march hare." | |
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John Heywood
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| "MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence;
at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that
persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that
themselves are sane." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Madness is rare in individuals ? but in groups, parties, nations,
and ages it is the rule." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to
another form of madness." | |
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Blaise Paschal
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| "Most men are within a finger"s breadth of being mad." | |
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Diogenes the Cynic
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| "Sanity is a madness put to good use." | |
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George Santayana
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| "Such is the stuff of waking nightmares, incipient madness, the sort
of now-bewildered but soon-to-be-deranged thoughts that cause once
well-balanced people to peek under their beds at night, suspect that their
phones are tapped, and, in time, become certain that sinister forces are
monitoring their every move. Maybe it"s the government, maybe it"s the
Trilateral Commission, maybe it"s the saucer people. You can"t trust
anyone because anyone and everyone may be one of Them or on of Their
Agents. And pretty soon you begin writing long letters to the editor of
Scientific American, or maybe you don"t because the editors are probably
part of the conspiracy too. And you think about lining your room with
aluminum foil to keep the radio waves out, and at night you roam the
streets spray-painting mystic symbols on the walls to repel strange
forces, and all the while you gibber to yourself and what you say makes
sense to you if to no one else, and in the end you put your belongings in
a shopping bag, better to be mobile, and you look for a dark place you can
hide during the daylight hours, because They are out there, and They are
searching, and They want you in their crosshairs. . . . The headshrinkers
call it paranoia, and when it gets bad they put you away. Because, after
all, people who think everyone in the world wants to kill them can be
dangerous." | |
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Joseph R. Garber
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| "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not
mad." | |
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Salvador Dali
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| "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,
burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everyone goes
"Awww!"" | |
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Jack Kerouac
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| "We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides
us is whether it is crazy enough." | |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
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| "We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check
manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted
crime of slaughtering whole peoples?" | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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