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Traditionally, insanity or madness is the behaviour whereby a person flouts societal norms and may become a danger to himself and others. Greek tragedies and Shakespeare often refer to madness in this sense. Psychologically, it is a general, popular and legal term defining behaviour influenced by mental instability. In modern usage, it is most commonly encountered as an informal, unscientific term, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the medical profession the term is now... full article at wikipedia

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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.	Rita Mae Brown	Sudden Death
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.	Edgar Allan Poe
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it	William Shakespeare	Hamlet
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.	Mark Twain
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.	Mark Twain
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.	Baltasar Gracián y Morales
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.	Ludwig Wittgenstein
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.	Sigmund Freud
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.	Oscar Levant
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.		Unknown
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