A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
How strange to have failed as a social creature — even criminals do not fail that way — they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I teach that all men are mad.
I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.