Sanity Quotes - Page 11

• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Insanity

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

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• The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Mean, Fighting, Gun

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• The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

  Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

  Mad, Madmen, Knows

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• Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

  Amber Benson

  Regret, Law, Trying

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• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, People, Impossible

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• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  And Love, Stopping, Radical

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• The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, Gambling, President

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• Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

  Frederick Franck

  Inspirational, Courage, Real

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• I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Laughter, War

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• Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

  Larry Wall

  Essence, Inconsistent, Consistently

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• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!!

  Triple H

  Wwe, Able, Shut Up

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• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Thinking, People, Return

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• Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sound, Relation, Objects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

  Winston Smith

  Truth, Mad, Political

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• One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oneness, Space

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Mad

  "The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense".

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• Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Husband, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

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• I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Father, Mad, Littles

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• 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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• If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Pieces

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• Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Reality, Views

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• God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.

  Josie Loren

  Blessed, Support, Joy

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

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• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  Daniel Pfeiffer

  Team, Media, White

  "Interview: White House’s Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill". Interview with Shira Lazar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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