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| As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity. James Agee Quotes |
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| Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Cyril Connolly Quotes |
“There is a pleasure sure, in being mad,
which none but madmen know.” John Dryden Quotes |
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| "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein Quotes |
| "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." Nora Ephron Quotes |
| "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Johann von Goethe Quotes |
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray Quotes |
| The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself--his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
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| "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." R. D. Lang Quotes |
| Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Lang Quotes |
| "There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." Christine Lavin Quotes |
| 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. John Lennon Quotes |
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| “I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely. And this is natural, if things are very good, you can find satisfaction with the world as it seems to be. If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily. At the time, I had some recognition. I was making some progress professionally, but I wasn’t really at the top. I didn’t have top level recognition, and so when I started thinking irrationally, I imagined myself as really on a Number 1 level. I was the most important person of the world, and people, like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another.” John Forbes Nash Quotes |
| "...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards me. ...I started to see crypto-communists everywhere. ...I started to think I was a man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head, from people opposed to my ideas. ...The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake." John Forbes Nash Quotes |
| Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind -- a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it. Eden Phillpotts Quotes |
| There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Quotes |
| Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes |
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| No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein Quotes |
| Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Quotes |
