Insanity Quotes - Page 26

• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Healthy

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.

  Eric Schlosser

  Marijuana, Psychosis, Years

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• No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

  Ry Cooder

  Second Chance, Land, Valleys

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• In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

  Michael Crichton

  Strength, Horse, Warrior

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Eaters of the Dead”, p.56, Vintage

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• I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Mean, Useless

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Believe, Insane, Satan

  Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

  Charles Tart

  Tragedy, Possibility, Lost

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• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Heaven, Getting High, Levels

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• Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mouths, Shelter

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.23

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• The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Technology, Choices

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• War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Madness, Collectives

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drunkenness

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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• We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

  Billy Joel

  Forever, Gone, Faces

  Song: The Stranger, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Deranged, Indication

  Leo Tolstoy, T. C. B. Cook (2004). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

  Alice Cooper

  Want, Littles, Streets

  Song: Chop, Chop, Chop

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• You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

  David Bowie

  Faces, Wells, Know Me

  Song: Janine, Album: Space Oddity, 2006

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• Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Love You, Buddhism

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• Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Honestly

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• Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Real

  "After Earth". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love You, Secret, Halos

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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• I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Nice, Land, Sovereign

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

  David Korten

  Inspiring, Real, Simple

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