Alan Watts Quotes

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

It's true we're all a little insane.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.