Sane Quotes - Page 6

• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Insane, Use

  "Scientology: A History Of Man". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1952.

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• An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Fun, Heart, Individual

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• It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

  Lykke Li

  People, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February, 28 2011.

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• The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

  Linus Pauling

  War, World, Policy

  Linus Pauling (1964). “Linus Pauling on Science and Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture”

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Real, Safety

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

  Trevor Baylis

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Simple, Judging

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Death, Sea

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

  Germaine Greer

  Falling In Love, Sex, Men

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• The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ships

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• I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

  Kevin Woods

  Soccer, Crime, Know How

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• Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

  William Allen White

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

  Joseph Conrad

  Food, Views, Meditation

  Joseph Conrad, Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape (2010). “Last Essays”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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• You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

  Stephen King

  Life, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

  Florence Welch

  Healthy, Trying, Daydreaming

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• A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow

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• If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

  John Waters

  Thinking, Giving, Parent

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• Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

  Byron Katie

  Phones, Mind, Email

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• In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Facts, Sanity, Moments

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignored, Quiet, Sensible

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• I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

  Marti Noxon

  Writing, Actors, Pressure

  "Screenwriter Marti Noxon Exclusive Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

  Kim Wilde

  Thinking, Laughing, Grace

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports.

  Ann Coulter

  Grandmother, Airports, Law

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