Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

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

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

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.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

There is a certain method in his madness.

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

'Insanity... I like it."

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

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

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Madness breeds madness.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

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.

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

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.