#insanity

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#insanity #sanity #transcendence #life

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (b. 1929) ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#insanity #sanity #society #humor

There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity ↗

— Josh Stern

#humor

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#insanity #logic-reason #poets #imagination

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love #love

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#insanity #motherhood #love

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time. ↗

— Stefan Grabiński

#fantasy #fiction #insanity #reality #thought

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#media-corruption #rally-to-restore-insanity #media

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ↗

— William Blake

#genius #hell #insanity #torment #genius

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#karen-marie-moning #insanity