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Quotations about insanity

John LennonOur society is run by insane people for insane objectives. . . I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

 - John Lennon

Tags:   insanity  maniacs  society  

Friedrich NietzscheA casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   faith  insanity  proof  

John LockeMadmen do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some of the ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths. . .For, by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.

 - John Locke

Tags:   imagination  insanity  reality  reasoning