All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Herman Melville
Some Similar Quotes
  1. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - Unknown

  3. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare

  4. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad! " he annouced. - Douglas Adams

  5. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Dale Wasserman

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  2. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish!...

  3. Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's...

  4. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  5. But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

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