A Quote by C. S. Lewis

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis
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November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Donald Barthelme

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

Ambrose Bierce

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Bram Stoker

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Graham Swift

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

John Locke

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Clive Barker

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

Robert Aickman

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Saib Tabrizi

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Benjamin Whichcote

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Akira Kurosawa

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Akira Kurosawa

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Terry Pratchett

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