#madness

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#extreme #limit #madness #public #wisdom

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#everybody #experiment #fend #find #lab

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#away #christ #fall #help #jesus

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#madness #sheep #talk #wolf

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue