998 Quotes About Madness


  • Author Foucault
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    To respect madness is not to interpret it as the involuntary and inevitable accident of disease, but to recognise this lower limit of human truth, a limit not accidental but essential.

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  • Author F.K. Preston
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    Inside the minds of those who fall mad are two things: obsession and inspiration. The obsession is the fire. The inspiration is the fuel.

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  • Author Michel Foucault
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    U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one sićušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela čovečjeg i čine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.

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  • Author André Breton
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    The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.

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