What is madness? What is genius? What are the causes of madness and genius? Is it true that there is some harmony between them? Schopenhauer said, at least, that genius is closer to the madman than to normal people. We could start by saying that both geniuses and madmen get out of the way of habitual mental associations, which leads most of us to accept the order that concepts impose in the chaos that is the starting point of the universe, the generalizations that help us to classify the innumerable individual things. Crazy people and geniuses are especially original when it comes to associating one thing with another. Obviously, that originality runs along normally conflicting paths, although the peculiarity that there are geniuses who are also crazy adds a dose of intrigue regarding what are the paths along which the human mind runs.
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