Insanity
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
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Insanity Quotations
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus
Insanity Translations
insanity in German is Wahnsinn, Irrsinn
insanity in Latin is insania
insanity in Norwegian is vannvidd, sinnssykdom
insanity in Spanish is locura
insanity in Swedish is vansinne, sinnessjukdom
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