Sanity Quotes
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.
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You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
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The public prosecutor … should be subject to regular examinations to attest to sanity.
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
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If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
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As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.
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Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
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Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
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Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
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Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
