Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity is a compromise.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

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

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.