Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings . . . the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with it the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art . . . So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense . . . madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Madness is somewhere between chaos and having a dream.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings....the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of all arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art....So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense...madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Like madness is the glory of this life.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

Madness breeds madness.

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.