Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

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.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

Too much sanity may be madness!

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

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

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

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.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

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

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.