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"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
"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."
"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."
"Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses."
"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."
"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."
"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."
"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."
"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."
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