Quotes About Sanity

After all, humans – especially adult ones – want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Quando a loucura se converte em normalidade, a única forma de encontrarmos a sanidade passa pela audácia de sermos diferentes. Ou pela audácia de sermos o eu que existe à margem de todo o entulho com que a vida moderna entope corpo e mente.

regla principal es que, si quieres parecer cuerdo en la Tierra, tienes que estar en el lugar adecuado, llevar las ropas adecuadas, decir las cosas adecuadas y pisar solo el césped adecuado.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?

The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!

Sanity—that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Since sane people find the insane impenetrable and irreducible, they consider themselves the sole owners of rationality.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Ich muß gestehen, daß ich zuerst den Eindruck hatte, unter Verrückte gefallen zu sein.

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

Unos dicen que el peso la ha vuelto loca. Yo tengo fe en su demencia. Solo las pequeñas locuras pueden salvarnos de la gran locura.

Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

On Being Sane in Insane Places

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.