“The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.”
Otto Weininger
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
Aristotle
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
Voltaire
“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.''How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.'You must be,” said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Lewis Carroll
“There is no genius free from some tincture of madness”
Seneca