Definition of Insanity

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Insanity

The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

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Insanity Quotations

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft

Insanity Translations

insanity in German is Wahnsinn, Irrsinn
insanity in Latin is insania
insanity in Norwegian is vannvidd, sinnssykdom
insanity in Spanish is locura
insanity in Swedish is vansinne, sinnessjukdom

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