'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.