#madmen

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