Horace Quotes

Collective madness is called sanity.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Madness is no madness when shared.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

The majority is always sane.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

All I want to be is normally insane.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

A man who is 100% sane is dead.

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.