Where is the fine line between genius and insanity?

Answer 1

I think by the time you get called "genius" - you are already insane. The "normality" of the world is the pure madness itself for the mind of genius. Take controversial Mozart or despotic Beethoven, or "lunatic" Kant and many many of them who seemed to be so insane at their lifetime, which in fact the things were probably the other way round...

Answer 2

It is the line of rational behaviour.

True genius is to perceive reality in its exact nature.

Insanity is to believe you have when you haven't.

Some Genii have to cross the line and then come back as Newton did before writing the Principia.

If Insanity is a neccesary step to breaking down falsely held beliefs then a brief adventure in to it is ok. One of the reasons that so many pieces of music and art were inspired by drug experiences.

Genius can come in to question when the person draws a conclusion which is so different from everybody elses perception but may be correct.

A genius has become insane when he/ she can no longer rationally view the world in a functional way. If they are wrapped up in abstraction and theory and have no evidence to support any dysfunctional perceptions they have, can't just sit down and honestly state what they feel definitely or accept the reality they see before them, they have crossed the line and gone insane.

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) The difference between genius & insanity, in my opinion is that genius has insight & high intelligence but its grounded in reality & as such it has a practical application that can benefit people or society.

Where as insanity, is ungrounded & irrational, & not based in any kind of reality thus it cannot be applied in a practical way that helps or benefits anyone else.

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Answer 4

Both states of the mind occur when a man has crossed the ordinary way of looking and solving a puzzle and creates a remedy that is original in it's achievement.

Genius is when the remedy is useful and requires no improvement on it.

Insanity is using the same solution over and over again to solve a completely different puzzle and never getting a solution..

Answer 5

The line is when the genius relaizes that s/he can use her/his intelligence for something other than giving back to the world and the inhabitants that we share the planet with. They waste their talent on hurt rather than healing the damage that has already been done. It's a shameful waste of a gift.

Answer 6

What difficult question! Often the difference it is only that we are speaking about somebody already dead one. That was a crazy person (outlandish), now he is a genius…

OK...Really I suppose that the genius it is the person who (inside his personal world) takes a giant step where the humanity would arrive more slowly or where it would like to arrive.
Madness is when you lose yourself in that step in “a personal place" where nobody would want to go behind you.

Answer 7

"between genius and insanity"

Look under H for Humility

Answer 8

i think genius is when everybody else believes you. insanity is when nobody believes you, then your thoughts and ideas (genius as they may be) are all in your head and ONLY YOU are convinced that they are genius. So in actuality, "genius" and "insanity" is really determined by your audience.

Answer 9

do they not say that the difference between genius and insanity is measured by success?

not sure who "they" are but i think they're pretty on the money.

Answer 10

Where people stop agreeing with you. But the line is subject to change depending on the people, since we all change so much in a lifetime.