Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin Copy Share Image
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to… — Trent Jamieson Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“In all my twenty years of wandering over the restless waters of the globe I can only remember one Christmas Day celebrated… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them.” — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures. — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for… — John Astin Copy Share Image