All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Insanity”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”
“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”
“But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.”
“No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.”
“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.”
“We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.”
“The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.”

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