Madman Quote by Salvador Dali

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is…

— Daniel Tammet

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

— Anonymous

A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools dont belong in his rank.

— Anonymous

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that…

— Machado de Assis

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…

— Antonin Artaud

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

— Michael Moorcock

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...

— Anonymous