„The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.“
— Camille Paglia
„Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.''How pleasant then to be insane!“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Collective madness is called sanity..“
— Paulo Coelho
„I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.“
— John Nash
„You said I killed you-haunt me, then! […] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!“
— Emily Brontë