"Sanity ... had it ever been more..." - Quote by C S Lewis
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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“Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.”
“There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.”
“Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.”
More on Sanity
“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”
“No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.”
“At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.”
More on Reality
“The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.”
“Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.”
“No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.”