Madness Quote by Nassir Ghaemi

Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki,…

— Brad Warner

“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.”

— Tawny Lara

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

— Steve Allen

“This is kind of insane, isn't it?" I asked. "I've only known you for a few days." "Five days. Six days if you include…

— N.R. Walker

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by…

— Carl Jung

“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity…

— Margaret Atwood

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,

— Rafael Sabatini

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male…

— Adrienne Rich

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an…

— Ana Castillo

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I…

— Henry David Thoreau