Sane Quotes - Page 16

• Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Government, People, Drunk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.169, Penguin

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• The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Doctrine, Needs, World

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• By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
  and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Issues

  The American Mercury, February 1926.

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• Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Taken, Silly, Law

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• Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Tyrants, Insane

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a
  guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility
  for the first time in my life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Responsibility, House

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Daughter, Son

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• I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Believe, Men

  "Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

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• If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

  Jacque Fresco

  All Things, Ifs

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• I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Grounded, Personal Relationships

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

  David Talbot

  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Heritage, Heard, Humans

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

  Feist

  Yield, Giving, Crowns

  Song: Monarch

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• But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

  Lena Dunham

  Order, Stories, Want

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.16, Random House

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• No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Independent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Support, Temptation, Female

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

  John Keats

  Dancing, Mad, Together

  John Keats (1991). “Complete Poems”, p.164, Harvard University Press

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• That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserved of their scorn.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Mean, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.80, Canongate Books

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• Art is man determined to die sane.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Men, Determined

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• Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Europe, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.510

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

  Gerard Way

  Music, Pain, Kissing

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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