Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.” — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“It’s lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn’t apply to… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy,… — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Newton's third life childrearing colin for every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy. - Edmond Kirsch” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging… — Mike Seabrook Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later,… — Dee Remy Copy Share Image
“Lunacy attracting lunacy. Then, of course, they encourage each other, I suppose, validate each other.” — Brent Hayward Copy Share Image
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner.” — Oleg Kisselev Copy Share Image
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Speaking of lunacy,' remarked Pyrgus later, 'are you in love with my sister?' Oh, yes!' Henry said at once.” — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
“there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
