Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Madness Quotes

CorruptionMadnessPerversion The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

English Poet and Translator
GreatnessMadnessMind No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher - 384 BC
Human NatureMadnessSanity Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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Diogenes

Human NatureMadnessNecessity Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Blaise Pascal

French Mathematician and Physicist
CollectivismGroup BehaviorIndividual vs CollectiveMadnessSocial Dynamics Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher
Collective ActionGainMadnessParty SpiritSociety Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope

English Poet and Translator
IntelligenceMadnessScience Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Edgar Allan Poe

ConformityFreedomIndividualityLiving LifeMadness Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Charles Bukowski

American poet and novelist
FootballMadnessPassionSelf-awareness At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Vince Lombardi

American Football Coach
LoveMadnessReason There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher
Madness Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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Ernest Hemingway

AmbitionDisproportionMadnessUnrealism The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Former Emperor of the French