“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”
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“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iii. 3. 51
Quoted by Stobaeus
“And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 8 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
