George Santayana Quotes
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
George Santayana
Quotes to Explore
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
Richard Scott Bakker
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emil Cioran
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Radio is for driving.
Ira Glass
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An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
William Jones
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
George Santayana
