Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

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

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

In revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

'Insanity... I like it."

The key of joy is disobedience.

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.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.