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#madmen

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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.


Bruce Sterling


#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.


Thomas Sankara


#act #clarity #dare #extreme #future

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.


Diogenes of Sinope


#madmen #noise #only

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!


Apostolos Doxiadis


#death #logic #madmen #mystics #war

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.


William Shakespeare


#imagination #lovers #madmen #reason #dreams

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.


Emile M. Cioran


#madmen #makes #potential

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.


John Dryden


#being mad #know #mad #madmen #none

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.


Alexander Pope


#madmen #run #saint #worst

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.


Robert M. Pirsig


#great-minds #life #madmen #purpose-of-life #rationality

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.


Aldous Huxley


#actually #always #appearance #been #beings






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