Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insani...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ,
- I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ,
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in it ,
- 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. ,
- 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. ,
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ,
- 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. ,
- 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. ,
- There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ,
- 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.
Notable people with this condition:
Also known as:
- madness,
- craziness
