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Quotes About Sanity

He was safe, everything was all right. He fell asleep murmuring Sanity is not statistical, with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.
~ George Orwell
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
~ George Orwell
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
~ George Orwell
Where there is equality there can be sanity.
~ George Orwell
How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
~ George Orwell
İnsan?n az?nl?kta olmas? tek kiÅŸilik bir az?nl?k olmas? bile deli olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmiyordu bir doÄŸru vard? bir de doÄŸru olmayan doÄŸruya sar?ld???n zaman tüm dünyay? kar??na bile alsan deli olmuyordun.
~ George Orwell
By lack of understanding they remained sane.
~ George Orwell
Formar parte de la minoría, aunque fuese una minoría de uno solo, no te convertía en loco. Había la verdad y la mentira, y aferrarse a la verdad, aunque fuese en contra del mundo entero, no era sinónimo de estar loco.
~ George Orwell
Había la verdad y lo que no era verdad y si una se aferraba a la verdad incluso contra el mundo entero, no estaba uno loco.
~ George Orwell
He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one... He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, a lunatic. But the though of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.
~ George Orwell
He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
Sanity is not statistical
~ George Orwell
He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; to-day, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic.
~ George Orwell
But because he belonged to the nineteenth century and to a non-military nation and class, he could not grasp the tremendous strength of the old world which was symbolised in his mind by fox-hunting Tories. He was, and still is, quite incapable of understanding that nationalism, religious bigotry and feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than what he himself would describe as sanity.
~ George Orwell
Nale?enie do mniejszoÅ›ci, nawet jednoosobowej, nie czyni nikogo szaleÅ"cem. Istnieje prawda i istnieje faÅ'sz, lecz dopóki ktoÅ› upiera siÄ™ przy prawdzie, nawet wbrew caÅ'emu Å›wiatu, pozostaje normalny.
~ George Orwell
La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.
~ George Orwell
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.
~ George Orwell
By lack of understanding they remained sane. They
~ George Orwell
It is not easy to become sane.
~ George Orwell
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
~ George Santayana
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.
~ Gerald May
'Eagle vs Shark' was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.
~ Taika Waititi
I knew I needed to workout for my sanity, and I try and make it a daily habit if I can, so I count myself very lucky that I have been able to keep doing that while pregnant.
~ Lara Trump
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
~ Akira Kurosawa