sanity

What I cannot love, I overlook.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence_ whether much that is glorious_ whether all that is profound_ does not spring from disease of thought_ from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that__ only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we__e all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

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).

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop.

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.

I am the catalyst of change!

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

To take away a man__ sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Some people wouldn__ still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn__ be disabled or dead.

The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, __hat raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?