What does there is a fine line between genius and insanity mean?
It means you’re probably onto something big. Of course it could also mean you’re crazy. Trust it anyways. Walk that fine line between genius and insanity. In the end the real prize never lies in what you achieve anyways.
Who said there’s a fine line between genius and insanity?
Oscar Levant
Quote by Oscar Levant: “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity…”
How do you know if you’re losing your sanity?
Symptoms of dissociation:
- going numb or blank.
- extreme panic or feeling overwhelmed.
- disembodied or disconnected from oneself.
- incessant worrying or screen-playing in your head.
- dissociative states or detachment from others.
- emotional withdrawal or shut down.
- not feeling grounded.
- feeling abandoned.
Quote by Oscar Levant: “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity…” “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Did Van Gogh know when he was insane?
Van Gogh was well aware of the line between sanity and insanity, and he knew when he was sane and when he was not. As he wrote to Theo in 1882, “As a patient, you are not free to work as one should, and not up to it either.”
Is a third of a genius a high number?
A third is a high number, compared to 5 to 10 percent (a very rough approximation) among the general population. Geniuses don’t have a habit of being unbalanced, but they do have a proclivity to it.
Does Lewy body dementia require Madness?
Aristotle linked the two when he said, “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.”* To give the ancient trope a modern context, consider the words of Robin Williams, whose suicidal death in 2014 was precipitated by Lewy Body Dementia: “You are only given a little spot of madness, and if you lose that, you are nothing.”