Definition of Insane

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Insane

Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

Causing insanity or madness.

Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.

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Insane Quotations

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

Insane Translations

insane in Afrikaans is mal
insane in Dutch is gek, dolzinnig, krankzinnig, dol
insane in Finnish is hullu
insane in French is fou
insane in Latin is demens, inasnum
insane in Norwegian is sinnsyk
insane in Portuguese is insano
insane in Swedish is vansinnig, sinnessjuk, tokig

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