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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#2

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#3

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Wei Hui

tags: crazy, intelligence, mad, madness, shanghai-baby

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#5

“Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: crazy, insane, mad, madness, shakespeare, william-shakespeare

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#6

“The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, awareness, boundaries, choices, confidence, conflict, dignity, fights, hatred, letting-it-go, mad, moving-on, offended, reflection, self-esteem, self-love, self-realization, self-reflection, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com

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#7

“Beasts bounding through time.

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory

moving this little bit of light toward
us
impossibly”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: beasts, beatiful, bukowski, champions, cowards, creatures, dog, glory, mad, soul, truth

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#8

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
― Nathaniel Lee

tags: insane-world, insanity, insanity-is-normal, mad, madness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, psychiatry, psychiatry-humor

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#9

“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

tags: atheist, atlanta, civilization, clergy, creed, deacon, evil, exploitation, freethinker, germany, harvard, morals, orthodox, orthodox-religion, public-prayer, public-school, puritanic, questions, rebel, slavery, soviet-union, ussr, war

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#10

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: insanity, madness, qotd, reality

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#11

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, insanity, madness

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#12

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#13

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

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#14

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety

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#15

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: epistemology, madness, perception, philosophy, postmodern, reality, schizophrenia, solipsism

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#16

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
― Akira Kurosawa

tags: insanity, madness, sanity

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#17

“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: alice, cats, cheshire-cat, madness

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#18

“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

tags: identity, nonconformity

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#19

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: acclaim, nonconformity, stubbornness

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#20

“Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: confomity, courage, individuality, nonconformity, self-freedom, truth-to-self

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#21

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom

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#22

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: freedom

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#23

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: government

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#24

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: imagination, reality

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#25

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

tags: paradoxes, prejudice

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#26

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom-kindness

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#27

“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#28

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses

tags: happiness

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#29

“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
― Rousseau Jean-Jacques

tags: ego, emile, life, simplicity, vanity

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#30

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#31

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

tags: freedom

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