Another world Quote by Mike Jay

“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular…

— Jon Ronson

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details…

— Dirk Wittenborn

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was…

— Michel Foucault

“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless;…

— Kate Summerscale

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

— Ernest Becker

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose…

— Thomas Szasz

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone…

— Gao Xingjian

“«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet dates. You’ve had people be creeps to…

— Douglas Coupland

“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm, then there…

— Bianca Stone

“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was how you…

— Heather Sellers

“But madness? That small remnant of altered consciousness, pure or in response to circumstances. Circumstances of life, even those of the body itself and…

— Kate Millett