Emile Durkheim Quotes

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Of course, I've known people who have mental difficulties, so I know how fragile people's psyches are and how little it can take to overbalance somebody.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven't pinpointed what it is.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

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

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.