Voltaire Quotes About Madness
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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