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Insanity Quotes by Mark Twain
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the…
- No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves…
- ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
- We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
- Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear…
- (Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
More Insanity Quotes
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein
- Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher