Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

There is no greater monster than reason.

Being nuts is its own reward.