Insanity · Skopia

Quotes

12

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

Absalom and Achitophel · 1681

★ 6.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 6.5

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

1983

★ 5.2

Legal opinion · Legal writing

To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

M'Naghten's Case · 1843

★ 4.3

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Movies

5

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979★ 9.7

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

1964★ 9.6

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

1960★ 9.5

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick

1980★ 9.2

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975★ 9.0

Books

2

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

1962★ 8.4

The Bell Jar

1963★ 6.3