Madness Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madness Perception Reason
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No man is normal without a tinge of madness in him! Madness in a person is a sign of intelligence, whoever they are. A… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
