sanity

It__ like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.

But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone else if wrong, to find my thoughts rational and reasonable when almost the entire world finds them damaged and flawed.

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!

Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.