Sane Quotes - Page 27

• Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

  David Hume

  Mad, Followers, Influential

  "A History of Western Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Book Three, Part I, Chapter 17. Hume, 1945.

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• If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Running, Pride, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

  George Eliot

  Names, People, Littles

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.429, Broadview Press

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

  Heidi Klum

  Long, Given, Pursue

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• I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Kids, Clear Head, Cameras

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• The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Opportunity, Response

  "The Only Sane Response to Change" by Jeff Jarvis, bigthink.com.

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• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World, Madness, Madmen

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• Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Party, Opportunity

  "Tea Party: Thank You for Your Insanity" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Men, People

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• We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

  Erich Fromm

  History, Growth, Connections

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• The whole world is going insane right now. We, too, have our own problems. The president of Lebanon is an arch-menace. But I think, as horrid as he is - and he is absolutely insane - he's still more sane than Trump, so that tells me a lot.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Thinking, Insane, President

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, People, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Normal, Type

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's something I still do just to keep sane and feel good about myself.

  John Hyams

  Art, Feel Good, Training

  Source: wegotthiscovered.com

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• Without design thinking, the only sane response to a problem is to make a smaller, "safer" move. Smaller moves don't get you very far. They key is to let out the leash on imagination, but not take it off the leash. Imagination is the only path to innovation. It's a good example of something that humans do better than machines.

  Marty Neumeier

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• "You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

  Beautiful, Science, Rainbow

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1907). “Little Stories”

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• No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

  Saul Bellow

  Cities, Chicago, Protection

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

  George Eliot

  People, Might, Neighbor

  1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

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• You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

  Gene Weingarten

  Support, Democracy, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky

  e. e. cummings

  Winning, Love Is, Sea

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

  Neil Gaiman

  Crazy, Mean, Want

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