Quote by Cynthia Ozick
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logi

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. – Henry Miller

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

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