Insane Quotes - Page 6

• With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

  Ann Aguirre

  Polite, Decided

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.640, Macmillan

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  I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

  Jared Leto

  Indifferent, Rationality, Conventional

  FaceBook post by Jared Leto from Aug 04, 2013

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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

  Woody Allen

  Money, Children, Order

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  John Buchan

  Funny, Atheist, Humorous

  Quoted in Harry E. Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943)

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• People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Death, Punishment, People

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• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humorous, Science, People

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Robert Bacher (April 6, 1950) as quoted in "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Kings, Truth

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

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• Christians have created a holiday that has become a beast that cannot be fed. Christmas gets longer and longer and longer, and you don't care, do you? You just take more and more of the calendar for yourself. It's unbelievable. How long does it take you people to shop? It's beyond belief. It's insane. When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn't poking his ass into it.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Christmas, Christian

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• When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, World, Illusion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Laughing, Ifs

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• Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Dies, Eternal

  Song: If I Die 2Nite

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.

  Colman McCarthy

  Hate, Heart, Mean

  Colman McCarthy (2002). “I'd Rather Teach Peace”

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• Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

  Erin O'Connor

  Crush, Growing Up, Boys

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humility, Pride, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  Larry Niven

  Technology, Space, Should Have

  Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Tyrants, Voice

  Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”

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• The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

  Horace

  Latin, Mad, Composing

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• Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

  Aberjhani

  Fashion, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Men, Action

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