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“Nietzsche: “He who has a ‘why’ can live with any ‘what.’” Dr. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: our body,…

— Stephen R. Covey

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world…

— Anne Fortier

“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers of the…

— Neil Evans

“Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it even reduces…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while…

— Robert Musil

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

— Elie Wiesel

“Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery" ~ R.…

— R. Alan Woods

...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to…

— Ernest Becker

“Thus, his ambition led him not to relieve his patients’ madness, but to exasperate it—to let it breathe with a life of its own.…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The greatest handicap faced by the psychiatrist was, he argued, the inability to experience their patients' conditions; but hashish gave them a means to…

— Cameron Adams

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

— Eckhart Tolle

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great…

— Joanne Greenberg