H. G. Wells Quotes, Dream Quotes, Mad Quotes

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

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Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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