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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. |
| R. D. Laing |
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| A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. |
| Josh Billings |
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| Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide |
| John Dryden |
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| I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? |
| William Saroyan |
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| It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy. |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources |
| Aristotle |
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| Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively |
| Voltaire |
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| There is no genius free from some tincture of madness |
| Seneca |
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| You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. |
| Robin Williams |
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