Insanity Quotes - Page 17

• Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

  Chris Brown

  Unity, Love Each Other

  FaceBook post by Chris Brown from Jun 23, 2013

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• A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Insane, Might

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• Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Today, Sane

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2011

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• Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Crazy, Form

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

  Erik Naggum

  Clever, Used And Abused, Technique

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• I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

  Jim Shaw

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Imagination

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

  C. J. Anderson

  Lord

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insane

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• Trump's last name is an omen that he'll win the Republican nomination, since "trump" means "triumph." One might suggest that this will constitute the triumph of insanity over reason, except that none of the other Republican candidates make any sense either. Trump just makes them seem less crazy by comparison.

  Michael R. Burch

  Crazy, Mean, Winning

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• There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Men, Answers

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Wicked

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

  Ken Kesey

  Character, People, Mad

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• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Driven, Blindness

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• Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Teenager, Believe, Temporary Insanity

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Life After Death: Œ§”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

  Seymour Krim

  Meaningful, Thinking, Psychosis

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• ...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power.  It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.  In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future.  With God all is Now.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Law, Deities

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

  Mel Brooks

  Thinking, World, Next

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• Perception determines insanity.

  Phil Collins

  Perception, Determine

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• One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

  Rosellen Brown

  Men, Self, Personality

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• A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  War, Men, Rights

  "Scientology and the Search for Significance", www.beliefnet.com.

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• He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Done, Politics

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• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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