George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?