Contemporary Quote by Thomas Szasz

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

— Ernest Becker

“Many people villainize those who have stood against corrupt systems and have faced the brutal tyranny that is unleashed when people of integrity stand…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When society does something wrong and extremely immoral, ironically it is not called ‘madness’. For example, ‘sati burning’ and ‘forced conversion into another religion’…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…

— Patricia Duncker

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

“Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? (..) Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared…

— C.G. Jung

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

— George Santayana

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the…

— Heinrich Heine

“In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.”

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Every desire has a relation to madness.

— Luce Irigaray

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

— Kay Redfield Jamison