Lunatics Quotes

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Fame attracts lunatics.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.