A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
In that way lies madness.
At the time John was a Boston attorney defending Samuel for radical activity.
I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.