George Santayana Quotes

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

George Santayana

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• Writing is a form of licensed madness.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Madness
  • Licensed

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Man
  • Army
  • Madness

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Alcohol
  • Illusion
  • Sanity

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• 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
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• 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
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Madness

• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sanity
  • Permanent
  • Neurosis

• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Madness
  • Knives
  • Indulge

• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  

  John Ensign
  • Children
  • Grandchildren
  • Sanity

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spirit
  • Madness
  • Profit

• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Madness
  • Excellent

• Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Gift

• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Perfection

• Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Silence
  • Revolution
  • Strength

• Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

  

  Erich Segal
  • Brilliant
  • Madness

• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  

  Chase Twichell
  • Culture
  • Chinese
  • Glimpses

• No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mistake
  • Blessing
  • Circumstance

• I think I wished for you all of my life.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking

• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  

  George Santayana
  • Madness
  • Sanity
  • Occasional