Madness

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"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.

"There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!"
- JOHN DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." - CARL JUNG, attributed

"Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - THOMAS SZASZ, The Second Sin

"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being." - PAUL TILLICH, The Courage To Be

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