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“Fools are not mad folks.”

Fool Mad Folks Folly

Book:Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear

Source: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear

“Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.”

Men Stills Wise Fool Madness Mad Oppression Insanity Sobriety

Book:.) (1853).

Source: .) (1853).

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”

Men Firsts Fool Mad Appearance Innovators Mad Men

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”

Ifs Heart Eye Joy Courses Politics Society Fool Mad Dinner Titles Republic Preaching Accompany Dukes Criticise Upstart

Author:Stendhal

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”

Fool Mad Jealousy

Book:The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)

Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)

“If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.”

Ifs Thinking Want Reason Liberty Break Worst Fool Judgment Mad Bounds Sake Restraint Examination Madmen Freeman

Author:John Locke

“We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.”

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.”

Ifs Men Wells Art Five Fool Mad Wit Alas

Book:Twelfth Night Or What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will

“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”

Ifs Men Matter Young Born Fool England Mad Wit

Book:Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare. The plays of Shakespeare, ed. and annotated by C. and M.C. Clarke, illustr. by H.C. Selous

Source: Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare. The plays of Shakespeare, ed. and annotated by C. and M.C. Clarke, illustr. by H.C. Selous

“I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Has Beens Book Matter Seems Able Together Reading Lines Fool Spring Essence Mad Invisible Branches Stomach Strands Menus Weaving

Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.”

Knows Men Trying Mind Moving Fall Waiting Steps Pieces Player Fool Kings Mad Strategy Tiny Chess Old Man Do You Know Whim Bolts Orbit Drunkards Looking Down Archer Kent Power Moves

Author:Christopher Moore

“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.”

Should Mind Firsts Believe Humans Two Fool Limits Illusion Mad Instance Human Mind Futility

Book:Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man