G.K. Chesterton on Arguing with the Madman
"If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will
get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not
being delayed by things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a
sense of humour or by clarity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is
the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase
for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. 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
