“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.”

“A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason”

“The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.”

“What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within whathe has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.”

“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the interesting person before mentioned is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”