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“He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.”

Disease Mad Majority Insanity

Author:Horace

“I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.”

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Book:The quality of mercy: an autobiography

Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography

“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”

Artist Disease Angel Insanity Cradle

Author:Edvard Munch

“The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”

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Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”

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Book:Prayer for Beginners

Source: Prayer for Beginners

“I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.”

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Book:How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture

Source: How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, 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.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.”

War Government Liberty Prove Disease Insanity Contagious

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.”

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Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”