Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.