Insanity Quote by Michael Greenberg

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Remember your Plato, Maeve. ‘If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

“Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of…

— Gilles Deleuze

“I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any…

— H.P Lovecraft

“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s…

— Paulo Coelho

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder…

— Terry Pratchett

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.…

— MJ DeMarco

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in…

— Thomas McEvilley

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”

— Ania Ahlborn