Quotes about Sanity
He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane. Suttree admired them with their hot eyes and dogeared bibles, God's barkers gone forth into the world like the prophets of old.
- Cormac McCarthy
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
- Wendell Berry
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
- Aldous Huxley
More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.
- Dallas Willard
Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is the only sane attitude.
- Dallas Willard
There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.
- Wendell Berry
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
- William Faulkner
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- Heinrich Heine
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
- Anonymous
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward Beecher