Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I spend as much time as possible at my stable in the Hollywood Hills. It keeps me sane. — Winter Ave Zoli Copy Share Image
The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. — Gerhard E Frost Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane.… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
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