Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

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

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I'll die a crazy old man!

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

All I want to be is normally insane.

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

Art is man determined to die sane.

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

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.