"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Sanity, Insanity, Logic, Mind

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"Daphne's thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards."

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Joyce Appleby, American Historian

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"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."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

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"Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person."

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"Daphne's thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses."

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

"To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory."

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

"Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person."

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