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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Debuffet

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.

Erich Fromm

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Chinese Proverb

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

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

Oscar Levant

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not

Crowley, Aleister

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity

William Allen White

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

However, there are all sorts of behaviours in the Bible that might be called mad now, but aren't designated as insanity by the text itself. People see visions of angels going up and down ladders, of fiery chariots and, like Moses, who hears a bush talking, and Balaam the prophet who has a conversation with his donkey, they hear voices of those who cannot be said to be present in any usual sense of the word. They also speak in tongues, as the disciples do at Pentecost. Like madness, the visions, the voices and the speaking in tongues are due to external and usually divine agencies. In a world so permeated with supernatural powers, there are no accidents, and in one so riddled with prophets who went into a frenzy while prophesying many more kinds of behaviour were accepted as normal, at least for a prophet or an inspired person, than would be the case now. John the Baptist, dressed in animal skins and wandering around in the wilderness denouncing his social superiors, was not thought of as a de-institutionalized street person who's gone off his medications, but as a saint. And this was the pattern for mediaeval views of aberrant behaviour if you were acting crazy it was a divine punishment, or else you were possessed, by powers either divine or demonic perhaps aided, in the latter case, by witches.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Unknown

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

Edwin Denby

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense

Unknown

Dance is a little insanity that does us all a lot of good.

Edward Demby

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

T. S. Eliot

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.