#madness

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

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

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#blind #love #madness

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into