No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
“No matter how gorgeous the person is, we have to keep our feet on the ground and be down-to-earth in order to… — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
“I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am… — Neil Hilborn Copy Share Image
“Love much like piece of mind and sanity are things you never truly appreciate until there gone.” — Kaneda Chaplin Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Taking a break from digging into your own issues doesn't make you unauthentic. It makes you sane.” — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
“Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the adventure addict who makes… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
You are to depend on society for its evaluation of your sanitymeasured, not in terms of the ancient wisdom or sacred psychologies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hint of sadness. “You lost your mind a long time… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My friend Meyer, the economist, says that cretins are the only humans who can be absolutely certain of their own sanity. All… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices...… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“They say there’s so much beauty in the world, but I don’t see it. Perhaps that’s my problem. Am I crazy for… — Cyma Rizwaan Khan Copy Share Image
“Sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don't want to be… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in… — Megan Sweeney Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image