Becoming Quote by James Thurber

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we…

— Adam Phillips

“Our modern microscopes, scanners, and sensors have disabused us of most of the old fanciful notions about the brain’s function. But the brain’s strangely…

— Nicholas Carr

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

— Josephine Hart

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not…

— Patricia Sun

Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have…

— Pope John Paul II

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Most people, on listening to a string of nonsense, will tend to doubt their own sanity before they realize that the person who is…

— Neal Stephenson

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.”

— Luis Marques

“The imagination, as a subset of the lesser “irrational,” has been rejected and devalued by our culture to the point that we acknowledge its…

— Sandra Dennis

“sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity. ”

— Henry James

“It’s not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There’s a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadow is…

— Haruki Murakami