Only the madman is absolutely sure.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE.

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

Locke’s definition of a madman: someone “reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality.

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man — given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it.

The madman is a dreamer awake

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.