Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of ma

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

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. – Proverb

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