Quotes About Sanity

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

How to start a war? Nurture your own latent hungers for power. Forget that only madmen pursue power for its own sake. Let such madmen gain power — even you. Let such madmen act behind their conventional masks of sanity. Whether their masks be fashioned from the delusions of defense or the theological aura of law, war will come. — Gowachin aphorism

Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

We may not be able to communicate that meaning to a world gone insane, but as Orwell knew, simply by staying sane when everyone else is mad, we may hope to convey the human heritage.

Humans want their religion to be sufficiently potent, vivid, and compelling so that it can offer them rewards of great magnitude. People seek a religion that is capable of miracles and that imparts order and sanity to the human condition. The religious organizations that maximize these aspects of religion, however, also demand the highest price in terms of what the individual must do to qualify for these rewards.

In a mental hospital, we do not want psychotic doctors.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

The fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

A fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,

Not for-an empire would those lunatics have gone outside their minds. A madman's thoughts are just the usual ideas of a human being, except that they're hermetically sealed inside his head. The world never gets into his head, and that's the way he wants it. A sealed head is like a lake without an outlet, standing, stagnant.

Sizi akl? ba??nda sanmalar?n?n en iyi yolu baya?? piÅŸkin olmakt?r. Ä°yiden iyiye piÅŸkinseniz mesele yok, o zaman hemen hemen ne yapsan?z yeridir, ne isterseniz, çoÄŸunluk sizden yanad?r ve kimin deli olup olmad???na karar veren de çoÄŸunluktur

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

Niente ci vuole a far la pazza, creda a me! Gliel'insegno io come si fa. Basta che Lei si metta a gridare in faccia a tutti la verità. Nessuno ci crede, e tutti la prendono per pazza!

Because our actions are based on our understanding, our behavior will then become unrealistic. When this occurs to a sufficient degree our fellow citizens will recognize that we are "out of touch with reality," and will deem us mentally ill even though we ourselves are most likely convinced of our sanity.

Mas deveras estariam eles doido, e foram curados por mim, ou o que pareceu cura não foi mais do que a descoberta do perfeito desequilíbrio do cérebro?

daí a alegação de que não havia regra para a completa sanidade mental.

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.