Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

within every sane mind there was a trace of insanity, and within the depths of madness glimmered a seed of lucidity.

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

A lunatic is just a minority of one.

"We have known for a long time that the petit-bourgeois reformer finds "good" and "bad" sides in everything."