No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
Shirley JacksonOur rocky ledge overlooking the valley. Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.
Suzanne CollinsTag: sanity katniss gale gathering-place
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
Anne LamottTag: sanity crazy insane nuts tribe
Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.
Katie KacvinskyTag: insanity sanity crazy insane awaken
Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left — sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.
G.K. ChestertonTag: sanity common-sense fanatics revolt
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan ChanceTag: insanity sanity explanation prejudice crazy mystery discrimination psychiatry understand mental-illness bias stereotype lunacy explain mental-disorder mental-health-stigma stigma diagnosis psychology-quotes sane-and-insane
I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury).
Paul TournierNow, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use this comparison: For a long time medical men combated fever as if it itself constituted the illness. Medicine today inclines rather to respect it, not only as a symptom of the disease but of the struggle of the organism against the disease. True, it is this struggle which makes it ill, and yet this very struggle is also the proof of its vitality and is the necessary way to healing.
Paul TournierThe history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
Barbara MarciniakTag: power history sanity victor
Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?"
(Editorial, The Times, 22 July 1853)
Tag: passion insanity madness sanity psychology lunacy
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