Insane

Famous quotes containing the word insane:

    “Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
    —Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

    “Now like an insane man, you seek water in the middle of a stream.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    “Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others’ eyes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)