Seneca the Younger Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Most geniuses are weird.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit