Quotes on Insanity And Sanity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.