To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
“I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
![“If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/adam-sedgwick-38188_beast_if-the-vestiges-be-true-the-labours-of-s_2635257.png)
