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Our relationship to the term "madness" is ambivalent. On the one hand, we describe the over-the-top and exaggerated, the sick and disturbed, the frightening and insane as crazy. On the other hand, we admire madness in the extravagant and exaggerated, in the unique and creative, in fantasy and revolutionary ideas. Haller has addressed the dividing lines between healthy and sick especially for the 100th "Knowledge for Life" lecture. He entertainingly addresses "madness" as the opposite pole to lack of imagination, narrow-mindedness or philistinism and explains when it turns into pathological behavior.