If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.
"A minority of one". . . the definition of insanity.
. . . one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Insanity is the insistence on meaning.