Jackson Posey

“Not even raving lunatics could suggest such a notion: ... This is so obviously ridiculous that I am at a loss for words to answer such nonsense; such depths of folly will spare them any further attack. It would be like using a sword to cut through butter! Why should I exhaust my energy fighting such absurdity?”
― Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit

“For in this life not everything in our vision is in our grasp – for we see some things in the distance and we see things that are not in our power, nor have we enjoyment of all we grasp – either because it does not please us or because it is not what ultimately we are seeking, the satisfaction and quiescence of all our desires. But the blessed have this triple gift in God, for they see him and seeing him they possess him, holding him for ever in their sight, and holding him they enjoy him as their ultimate goal fulfilling all their desires.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Perhaps the nearest we can get to expressing it is to say this: that [the madman's] mind moves in a perfect but narrow circle. A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large. In the same way the insane explanation is quite as complete as the sane one, but it is not so large. A bullet is quite as round as the world, but it is not the world. There is such a thing as a narrow universality; there is such a thing as a small and cramped eternity; you may see it in many modern religions.

Now, speaking quite externally and empirically, we may say that the strongest and most unmistakable mark of madness is this combination between a logical completeness and a spiritual contraction. The lunatic's theory explains a large number of things, but it does not explain them in a large way. I mean that if you or I were dealing with a mind that was growing morbid, we should be chiefly concerned not so much to give it arguments as to give it air, to convince it that there was something cleaner and cooler outside the suffocation of a single argument.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. ... The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy