I want a world without war a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Religion is induced insanity.
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
Well love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself you have no power over yourself you can't even think straight.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do but I'm learning.
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination lack of creativity.
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Order is the sanity of the mind the health of the body the peace of the city the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body so is order to all things.