Sane Quotes - Page 20

• When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Husband, Eye, Years

  "Jada Pinkett Smith reveals secrets behind her 105lb body and foreplay with husband Will Smith" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 30, 2014.

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• If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?

  Tim Ward

  Crazy, People, Suffering

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books

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• No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Suicide, Commit

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Technique, Raw Materials

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• I've always said, 'Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane,’

  Gigi Hadid

  Burgers, Fit, Clean

  "Teen model Gigi Hadid: Eating burgers keeps me sane" by nationalledger.com, January 27, 2015.

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, Views, Enlightenment

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• With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

  George Santayana

  Children, Eye, Artist

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.312, Indiana University Press

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• It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

  Tim Rice

  Eye, Safe

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• Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.

  Richard Ebeling

  Country, America, Socialist Countries

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• I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Things In Life, Iron

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• Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.54, New World Library

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• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Feelings, Conflict

  Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912. "The life of Bertrand Russell". Book by Ronald W. Clark, p. 174, 1975.

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• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Mad, Brain

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Insanity, Insane

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• People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Google, Stay Happy

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Volcanoes, Film

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

  John Myers

  Believe, Men, Host

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• Beware by whom you are called sane.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Christopher Maurer, Walter Inglis Anderson (2003). “Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

  Diane Sawyer

  Smart, Four, Needs

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• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

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• Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.

  Andrew Tudor

  Doors, Asking Why, Soul

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