• Question: Can you define the definition of insanity?

    Asked by dr1fty to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 17 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to be different each time.”

      (people think that Einstein said this, but it wasn’t him. We don’t know who said it first.)

    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Insanity is a really difficult word to define as it has so many possible meanings.

      It’s usually used as a one size fits all word for any behaviour that is ‘different’ to how society expects a person to behave.

      It’s a very un-scientific word.

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      It seems to have a pretty wide range of definitions from “extreme foolishness” to being “seriously mentally ill”.

      I’ve always liked the quote:
      “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line”.
      by Oscar Levant.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      The definition of insanity is a pathetic attempt to describe what we do not understand.

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