Having cut off the higher aspirations of man, those connected with

the soul, Hobbes and Locke hoped to find a floor beneath him, which

Rousseau removed. Man tumbled down into what I have called the

basement, which now appears bottomless.- Allan Bloom, the Closing of the American Mind, 1987

Information is the greatest weapon we have in the age of the Internet. -"Daniel Clark" (A character in Ted Dekker's _Adam_ [2008], Chapter 8)

We do not have to visit madhouses to find disordered minds; our planet is

the mental institution of the universe. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1794 -- 1832

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate overtaxed mind. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1809 -- 1894

Mad, quite mad, for never understood. - ipsedixit