Sane Quotes - Page 26

• I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Believe, Nuts, Want

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Mad, Awkward

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

  R. D. Laing

  Play, Numbers, Insanity

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• A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

  William Osler

  Wise, Men, Fifty

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.324, Duke University Press

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• In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

  R. D. Laing

  Mad, Insanity, Trying

  "The Divided Self". Book by R. D. Laing, Ch. 1, 1960.

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• If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

  Hannah Arendt

  Stupid, Philosophy, Exercise

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt, p. 13, 1978.

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• Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Book, Men

  "Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas". archives.cnn.com. December 13, 1999.

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• You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse — But all may be described in verse.

  Garrison Keillor

  Cat, People, Mad

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• I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

  Bill Bryson

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.252, VNR AG

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• Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

  Jack Germond

  Cutting, Guy, Feelings

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• Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

  Maxim Gorky

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

  John Muir

  Wild Beauty, Way, Chance

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.722, Library of America

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• No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Madness

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Want, Weapons

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• If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

  Philip Gambone

  Smart, Taught Us, Lovely

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• TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND
  WHOLE

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Heart, Ambush, Flats

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.108, Vintage

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• The majority is always sane.

  Larry Niven

  Majority

  Larry Niven (2014). “Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Balance, Trying

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.

  Kim Severson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

  Mark Twain

  Views, Earthquakes, Atheism

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• By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

  Gillian Anderson

  Children, Moving, Opportunity

  "Mulder and Scully Reopen the X-Files". Interview with Will Lawrence and John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 25, 2008.

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