Civilized Quote by Robert Frost

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with…

— John Muir

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That…

— John Stuart Mill

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the…

— Edith Sitwell

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

— D. H. Lawrence

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

— Terence McKenna

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem…

— Erich Fromm

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

— Ernest Becker

You are to depend on society for its evaluation of your sanitymeasured, not in terms of the ancient wisdom or sacred psychologies but in…

— Anonymous

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from…

— Anonymous

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius…

— Edith Sitwell