A Quote by Voltaire

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Voltaire

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

George Bernard Shaw

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Nathaniel Branden

A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.

Geoffrey Marcy

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Albert Einstein

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Stern

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

Richard A. Rowland

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Lin Yutang

It will be a long time, if ever, before we get to study Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars, so really, the study of Venus and Mars is the best opportunity that we have, and can imagine having anytime in the future, to understand the evolution of Earth-like planets.

David Grinspoon

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

Olivia Wilde

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

Steve Jobs

I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Eugene V. Debs

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