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Letter "S" » sanity
«Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.»
Author: Georges Bataille
| Keywords:
contradict, destroys, equilibrium, established, honestly, incessantly, labors, lucidity, obtuse, sanity, unhealthy
«Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.»
«Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.»
«There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
devastate, devastated, devastating, insanity, sanity, utter
«Sanity is a madness put to good use.»
«People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Thinking,
World
| Keywords:
fulfilling, In Our Time, sanity
«Sanity is a cozy lie.»
«Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sanity
| Keywords:
conventional, frame, frame of reference, reference, references, sanity, with reference to
«Sanity is a madness put to good uses»
«Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Sanity
| Keywords:
combination, sanity
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