Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
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