“Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.” SufferingClassWillingJudgmentMadFaultsDareDuesAidsCriminalsPenaltiesOffensePerversion Book:Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems Source: Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems
“We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.” PeopleIfsWorldDifferentRealitySeemsMightLyingRealizingInterestingViewsWillingEasierMadPoint Of ViewIgnorantIdeologyOur WorldTunnelsSomething InterestingDifferent Realities Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.” WorldWillingScientistMadDisinterestedDispassionateMad Scientist Book:The Unnatural Nature of Science Source: The Unnatural Nature of Science
“Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor of pulling the boat over the mountain is so integral to anyone making any creative effort. It's that universal Sisyphean struggle.” OrderHouseEffortVisionStruggleCreativeSacrificeWillingMountainUniversalMadMetaphorBoatDreamerOperaPullingOpera House Author:Sam Pressman
“I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.” MenYearsKindLastsFiveFansWillingTvsMadSeriesStorytellingProducersOptimisticWireMad MenTv SeriesSopranos Author:Jo Nesbo