Quotes About Sanity

Insane is such an ugly word, a voice in my head said. Think of it as obtaining a new look at reality.

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy,

the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In

Privacy is as necessary as company; you can drive a man crazy by depriving him of either.

What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis...and insanity is the only viable alternative.

Or, as Einstein once said — quoted by Korzybski in Science and Sanity — Insofar as the laws of mathematics are certain, they do not refer to reality; and insofar as they refer to reality, they are not certain.

One advertising copywriter had confided to me, after six months of relentless tripping, that he was now in daily communication with the flying saucer people from outer space. Then he added cautiously, "But don't tell that to anyone else. They might think I'm crazy.

Don't you think we all go a little mad sometimes? —Psycho

According to Korzybski (Science and Sanity) there is one field, and one field only, in which it is legitimate to ascribe predicates to groups—namely, in pure mathematics. This is legitimate because the groups or sets of pure math are purely abstract and created by definition. All k are x, in a mathematical context, because k and x are defined that way, and because they do not exist outside of pure thought.

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be." Sam

But who are you to say a person should be put away? I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

If she sat there without moving, they wouldn't punish her. If she sar there without moving, they'd know that she was sane, sane, sane.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

You can say that if you went crazy then you were crazy, and you couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. But that isn't the way it works, not in the real world. I mean, that's the sad thing about insane people; almost all of them know perfectly well that something is seriously wrong with them; that's what makes them so scared, so depressed. They know.

He drew in closer to ask in all seriousness, "You're mad, aren't you?" "As—a—hatter," she murmured back.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.