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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.