Chess Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and…

— G.K. Chesterton

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Anonymous

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

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Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

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