Sanity Quotes - Page 5

• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

  Doris Lessing

  Happiness, Moving, Knowing

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Conventional, Frame Of Reference

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought”, p.1897, Open Road Media

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• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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

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• You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

  Tony Blair

  Thank You, Reality, Things In Life

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Crazy, Mad, Society

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  Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Crazy, Party

  Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

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• One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

  Wallace Stegner

  Mean, World, Chance

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.119, Vintage

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• Too much sanity may be madness!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  May, Too Much, Madness

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Hope, Vision

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• We`re going to put sanity back into the White House.

  Donald Trump

  White, House, White House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Civilized Nations, Aberration, Problem

  1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

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• Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

  Josephine Hart

  Survival, Vision, Elements

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

  John le Carre

  Ignorance, Experts, World

  John le Carre (2004). “The Russia House: A Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

  Rachel Caine

  Insane World, Littles, Made

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.170, Allison & Busby

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• Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, People, Way

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• For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

  Mary Webb

  Soul, Insane, Doe

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• Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Views, Conventions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

  George S. Kaufman

  Christmas, Business, Books And Movies

  "Fictional character: Fiorello". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.

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• The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

  Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

  Mad, Persons, Knows

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• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

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