#madness

Sanity is madness put to good use. ↗

— George Santayana

#madness #put #sanity #use

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invigorating #madness #makes #more #ones

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#call #constancy #democracy #down #forces

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#beauty #cities #gallant #grim #mad

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#courage #door #into #keep #leads

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#bomb #dispatched #i #iran #irrationality

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anything #books #closer #human #human life

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#another #form #mad #madness #men

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#always #because #life #living #love