Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is a certain method in his madness.

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

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.

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

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

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

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.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

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

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

It's true we're all a little insane.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

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