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Sanity
«One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.»
«If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.»
«Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can?t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.»
«Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Reality,
Sanity,
Surrealism
| Keywords:
exposed, overdose, unwittingly
«No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Mankind,
Sanity
| Keywords:
insane, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, proper, sane
«A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.»
«Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sanity
| Keywords:
conventional, frame, frame of reference, reference, references, sanity, with reference to
«Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Sanity
| Keywords:
combination, sanity