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"If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity."

"You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction."

"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."

"Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment."

"Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it."

"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."

"To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while."

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
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"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."

"Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting."
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