#insanity

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ↗

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Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#insanity #mental-health #psychiatrist #sanity #art

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#insanity #men

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#insanity #logic-reason #poets #imagination

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#insanity #judgement #superstition #life

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ↗

— Cary Grant

#insanity #practically #runs

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#insanity #sanity #humor

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. ↗

— Frank Tallis

#imagination #insanity #isolation #mind #pathology

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. ↗