The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
“YOU are a genius!… and I am a genius because I married you.”
“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”
“Madness is the genius’ substitute for stupidity.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”
“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
Forever.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.
Book I, epistle ii, line 62
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
