This document contains quotes about madness from various authors. Some of the quotes discuss madness as a form of intellectual independence, as something that provides freedom, and as something that is common among groups and societies. Other quotes portray madness as a source of creativity, wisdom, and passion. Overall, the quotes suggest that madness takes many forms and can have both positive and negative aspects.

1. Madness/ Locura
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2. Ambrose Bierce
• Mad: 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

3. Nikos Kazantzakis
• A person needs
a little
madness, or
else they never
dare cut the
rope and be
free.

4. Jonathan Swift
• A tavern is a
place where
madness is
sold by the
bottle.

5. Petrarch
• Books have
led some to
learning and
others to
madness.

6. Allen Ginsberg
• Follow your
inner
moonlight;
don't hide the
madness.

7. Terence
• For you to ask
advice on the
rules of love is
no better than
to ask advice on
the rules of
madness.

8. J. G. Ballard
• In a
completely
sane
world, madn
ess is the
only
freedom!

9. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Amor que no
es locura no
es amor.

10. Edgar Allan Poe
• Science has not
yet taught us if
madness is or is
not the
sublimity of the
intelligence.

11. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Madness is rare
in individuals -
but in
groups, parties,
nations, and
ages it is the
rule.

12. Napoleon Bonaparte
• The great proof
of madness is
the
disproportion of
one's designs to
one's means.

13. .
Blaise Pascal
• Men are so
necessarily
mad, that not to
be mad would
amount to
another form of
madness

14. Emile M. Cioran
• So long as man
is protected by
madness - he
functions - and
flourishes.

15. Aristotle
• No great
genius has
ever existed
without
some touch
of madness.

16. Andre Gide
• Only those
things are
beautiful which
are inspired by
madness and
written by
reason.

17. Voltaire
• Men will always
be mad, and
those who think
they can cure
them are the
maddest of all

18. Ted Morgan
• Howard Hughes was
able to afford the
luxury of madness,
like a man who not
only thinks he is
Napoleon but hires
an army to prove it.

19. Henry Miller
• Madness is tonic
and invigorating.
It makes the sane
more sane. The
only ones who are
unable to profit
by it are the
insane.

20. Jean Cocteau
• The extreme
limit of
wisdom, that's
what the
public calls
madness.

21. Bruno Das Baer
• Abandon
the search
for Truth;
settle for a
good
fantasy

22. .
Marguerite Duras
• I believe that always, or
almost always, in all
childhoods and in all
the lives that follow
them, the mother
represents madness.
Our mothers always
remain the
strangest, craziest
people we've ever met

23. John Russell
• Sanity
calms, but
madness is
more
interesting.

24. Petrarch
• True, we love life, not
because we are used to
living, but because we
are used to loving.
There is always some
madness in love, but
there is also always
some reason in
madness.

25. Theodore Roethke
• What is
madness but
nobility of soul
at odds with
circumstance.