Hermann Broch Quotes

All I want to be is normally insane.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

It's true we're all a little insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

I don't really trust a sane person.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Too much sanity may be madness!

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.