Artifacts Quote by R. D. Laing

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

— Mary McMullen

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

— Anna Castillo

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

— Charles Manson

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

— R. D. Laing

“MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem.”

— Nassir Ghaemi

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details…

— Dirk Wittenborn

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of…

— Eckhart Tolle

“To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But…

— Anonymous

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

— Eckhart Tolle

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

— Euripides

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

— D. H. Lawrence