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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
Emily Dickinson
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Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
William Prynne
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The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
P. G. T. Beauregard
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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
William H. Gass
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
George Santayana
