George Santayana Quotes
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet -
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik -
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson -
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi -
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
Richard Scott Bakker -
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign -
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Aristotle -
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
Aristotle
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle -
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
Aristotle -
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
Socrates -
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
William H. Gass -
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
Abbas Kiarostami -
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Bill Vaughan -
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
Thomas Sowell -
It was getting to be the end of the day. The sun was somehow setting again. A man could stand in the street and tell a perfect stranger a story of such incomprehensible evil that it really seemed as if the sun should stop shining altogether. But there was no alteration in Heaven, no sign that the cries of children had been heard.
Edith Hahn Beer -
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
George Santayana