Insanity, craziness, or madness, is a spectrum of behaviors
characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.
Insanity may manifest in people as violations of societal norms,
including becoming a danger to themselves and others, though not
all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity
is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term
denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of
the insanity defense. - Have I need of mad men, that ye have
brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? - Achish
king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15 - All schizophrenia
patients are mad, and none are sane. Their behaviour is
incomprehensible. It tells us nothing about what they do in the
rest of their lives, gives no insight into the human condition
and has no lesson for sane people except how sane they are.
There's nothing profound about it. Schizophrenics aren't clever
or wise or witty — they may make some very odd remarks but
that's because they're mad, and