Quotes about Insanity

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Love is a sort of insanity.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Due to sin, the knowledge of God provided by the sensus divinitatis, prior to faith and regeneration, is both narrowed in scope and partially suppressed. The faculty itself may be diseased and thus partly or wholly disabled. There is such a thing as cognitive disease; there is blindness, deafness, inability to tell right from wrong, insanity; and there are analogues of these conditions with respect to the operation of the sensus divinitatis.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.