Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"No temporary chaos is worth your sanity."
Sanity quotes
Sanity
141 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"All I want to be is normally insane."
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
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"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."
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"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
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"the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions"
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"Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it."
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"That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion."
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"If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration."
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"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."
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"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
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"for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity."
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"Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream."
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"A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity."
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"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world"
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"Sanity is a compromise."
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"Every great genius has an admixture of madness."
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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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"The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be."
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"The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors."
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"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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"Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?"
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"At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."
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