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Quotation from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac (Project Gutenberg #130)
The central paradox of the chapter: insanity is not too little logic but logic sealed inside too small a world.
Citation: "The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac (Project Gutenberg #130). (id chesterton-orthodoxy-q2)
Portrait: Gilbert Chesterton, Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain.
