Sane Quotes - Page 27

• Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you have all the heaven and hell your heart has ever experienced that you can tap into, to be able to create something that can last several lifetimes.

  Paul Dalio

  Art, Heaven, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• You can't do all the work, so surround yourself with people you trust; if this is your show then everything is ultimately your call, but the more faith you have in people who have proven to be capable, the more sane you get to be.

  Kevin Biegel

  People, Surround Yourself, Shows

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

  Ian Bogost

  Able, Way, Venues

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World, Madness, Madmen

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• Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Party, Opportunity

  "Tea Party: Thank You for Your Insanity" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Opportunity, Response

  "The Only Sane Response to Change" by Jeff Jarvis, bigthink.com.

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• Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

  Heidi Klum

  Long, Given, Pursue

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• I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Kids, Clear Head, Cameras

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

  Erich Fromm

  History, Growth, Connections

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

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• I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Men, People

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• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

  Haruki Murakami

  Musician, Novelists, Needs

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• If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

  Amanda Peet

  Children, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 13, 2012.

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• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

  Salman Rushdie

  India And Pakistan, Kashmir, Borders

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• Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

  George Eliot

  People, Might, Neighbor

  1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

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• Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

  John Lahr

  Uncles, People, Theatre

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• I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

  John McAfee

  Alive, Stills, Describe Myself

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• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Identity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 59, 1799.

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• "You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

  Beautiful, Science, Rainbow

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1907). “Little Stories”

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• I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Depressing, Gone, Fiction

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.14, Milkweed Editions

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