LPPM MMV Irving Loon & Santayana

[Terrance]

"There is little philosophy not contained in the distinction
between things as they exist in nature, and things as they
appear to opinion yet both the substance and its appearance
often bear the same name, to the confusion of discourse. So
it is with the word madness, which sometimes designates a
habit of action, sometimes an illusion of the mind, AND
sometimes only the opprobrium which a censorious bystander
may wish to cast upon either.
Moralists and ignorant philosophers do not distinguish
nature from convention, and because madness is inconvenient
to society they call it contrary to nature, BUT the diseases
which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts
which preserve him.
   
>From  "Normal Madness"  Dialogues In Limbo

Santayana