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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?
* Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?
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**Achish king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15
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**Achish king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15
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* All schizophrenia patients are mad, and none are sane. Their behaviour is incomprehensible. It tells us nothing about what they do in the rest of their lives, gives no insight into the human condition and has no lesson for sane people except how sane they are. There's nothing profound about it. Schizophrenics aren't clever or wise or witty — they may make some very odd remarks but that's because they're mad, and there's nothing to be got out of what they say. When they laugh at things the rest of us don't think are funny, like the death of a parent, they're not being penetrating, and on other occasions they're not wryly amused at at the simplicity and stupidity of the psychiatrist, however well justified that might be in many cases. They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more. The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them. And that's an end of the matter.
* All schizophrenia patients are mad, and none are sane. Their behaviour is incomprehensible. It tells us nothing about what they do in the rest of their lives, gives no insight into the human condition and has no lesson for sane people except how sane they are. There's nothing profound about it. Schizophrenics aren't clever or wise or witty — they may make some very odd remarks but that's because they're mad, and there's nothing to be got out of what they say. When they laugh at things the rest of us don't think are funny, like the death of a parent, they're not being penetrating, and on other occasions they're not wryly amused at at the simplicity and stupidity of the psychiatrist, however well justified that might be in many cases. They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more. The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them. And that's an end of the matter.
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* Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
* Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
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** [[Ambrose Bierce]],
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''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''.
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** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''.
* Mad, adj. 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. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
* Mad, adj. 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. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
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** [[Ambrose Bierce]],
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''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''.
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** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''.
* '''Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.'''
* '''Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.'''
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**[[Ray Bradbury]],
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''[[w:The Meadow|The Meadow]]'' (1947), originally a radio play for the ''[[w:World Security Workshop|World Security Workshop]]''; later revised into a short-story for the anthology ''[[w:The Golden Apples of the Sun|The Golden Apples of the Sun]]'' (1953).
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**[[Ray Bradbury]], ''[[w:The Meadow|The Meadow]]'' (1947), originally a radio play for the ''[[w:World Security Workshop|World Security Workshop]]''; later revised into a short-story for the anthology ''[[w:The Golden Apples of the Sun|The Golden Apples of the Sun]]'' (1953).
* I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
* I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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**[[Ray Bradbury]],
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''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''.
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**[[Ray Bradbury]], ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''.
* Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
* Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
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* The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: '''the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad'''
* The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: '''the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad'''
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**[[Hosea]] 9:7
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**[[Hosea]] 9:7
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* If we are all insane, then all insanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (except neither of those two amateur-night surgeons were ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you're under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...although it's doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties.
* If we are all insane, then all insanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (except neither of those two amateur-night surgeons were ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you're under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...although it's doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties.
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** [[Stephen King]],
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''[[w:Danse Macabre|Danse Macabre]]'' (1981).
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** [[Stephen King]], ''[[w:Danse Macabre|Danse Macabre]]'' (1981).
* Mental illness is in the eye of the beholder.
* Mental illness is in the eye of the beholder.
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** Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation.
** Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation.
** [[Juvenal]], ''Satires'', X, 166.
** [[Juvenal]], ''Satires'', X, 166.
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* O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?<br> His chain some furious madman breaks;<br>He comes—I see his glaring eyes;<br> Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.<br>Help! Help! He's gone!—O fearful woe,<br> Such screams to hear, such sights to see!<br>My brain, my brain,—I know, I know<br> I am not mad but soon shall be.
* O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?<br> His chain some furious madman breaks;<br>He comes—I see his glaring eyes;<br> Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.<br>Help! Help! He's gone!—O fearful woe,<br> Such screams to hear, such sights to see!<br>My brain, my brain,—I know, I know<br> I am not mad but soon shall be.
** [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]] ("Monk Lewis"), ''The Maniac''.
** [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]] ("Monk Lewis"), ''The Maniac''.
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* Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers:
* Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers:
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*:::"It is not madness
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*:::"It is not madness
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*::That I have uttered; bring me to the test, <br>And I the matter will re-word; which madness <br>Would gambol from."
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*::That I have uttered; bring me to the test, <br>And I the matter will re-word; which madness <br>Would gambol from."
*:Madness, then, varies and fluctuates: it cannot "re-word"—if the poet's observation be well founded; and though the Court would not at all rely upon it as an authority, yet it knows from the information of a most eminent physician that this test of madness, suggested by this passage, was found, by experiment in a recent case, to be strictly applicable, and discovered the lurking disease.
*:Madness, then, varies and fluctuates: it cannot "re-word"—if the poet's observation be well founded; and though the Court would not at all rely upon it as an authority, yet it knows from the information of a most eminent physician that this test of madness, suggested by this passage, was found, by experiment in a recent case, to be strictly applicable, and discovered the lurking disease.
** Sir John Nicholl, ''Groom v. Thomas'' (1829), 2 Hagg. Ecc. Rep. 452, 453; reported in ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 104-05. The reference goes on to say:<br>The Court was understood to allude to the case referred to in a note to p. 242, of the 10th number of the new series of the ''Quarterly Journal of Sciences and the Arts'', London, 1829. "If the tests of insanity are matters of law, the practice of allowing experts to testify what they are should be discontinued; if they are matters of fact, the Judge should no longer testify without being sworn as a witness and showing himself qualified to testify as an expert."—Doe, J., State v. Pike, 49 New Hamp. Eep. 399 ; 6 Amer. Eep. 584.
** Sir John Nicholl, ''Groom v. Thomas'' (1829), 2 Hagg. Ecc. Rep. 452, 453; reported in ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 104-05. The reference goes on to say:<br>The Court was understood to allude to the case referred to in a note to p. 242, of the 10th number of the new series of the ''Quarterly Journal of Sciences and the Arts'', London, 1829. "If the tests of insanity are matters of law, the practice of allowing experts to testify what they are should be discontinued; if they are matters of fact, the Judge should no longer testify without being sworn as a witness and showing himself qualified to testify as an expert."—Doe, J., State v. Pike, 49 New Hamp. Eep. 399 ; 6 Amer. Eep. 584.