Insanity Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

“And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are undoubtably those…

— Leo Tolstoy

“How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?”

— Claire Merle

“The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while…

— Robert Musil

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of…

— Eckhart Tolle

“For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking…

— C.G. Jung

“was not crazy.  He did not have a history of insanity in his family.  He had no excessive mental”

— Brian Harmon

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, “Who doesn’t become…

— Erich Fromm

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't…

— Susanna Kaysen

“Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.”

— Philip K. Dick

“The reader must be reminded that it takes a good 'mind' to be 'insane'. Morons, imbeciles, and idiots are 'mentally' deficient, but could not…

— Alfred Korzybski