Sanity Quotes - Page 13

• If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Enlightenment, Ifs

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.304, Shambhala Publications

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• Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

  David Weber

  Honor, Balance, Insane

  "Field of Dishonor". Book by David Weber, 1994.

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• There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Doe, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Long, Insane, May

  S. S. Van Dine (1929). “The Bishop Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Atheism, Superstitions

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• Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Jesus, Names, People

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

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• I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.

  Joe Inman

  Golf, Goal

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• it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

  Margaret Deland

  Crazy, Unhappy, Sane

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Noise, Imposition, Noisy

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mean, Our Society, Idiot

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6708, Delphi Classics

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• Where sanity is there God is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.388, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Acceptance, Simple, Confusion

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Numbers, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Madness

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• If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Architecture, Proportion

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  George Santayana

  Insanity, Madness, Wonderful

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Heart, Humor

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

  Renata Adler

  Profound, Moral, Our Time

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Insanity, Lust

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Hero, Government, Justice

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.400, Granta Books

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• Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.

  Bessie Head

  Children, Order, People

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Mean, Voice, World

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.45, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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