"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

J. G. Ballard

#Freedom Quotes #World Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
“...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.”
“Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Molly Sims from Oct 09, 2011
“The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.”
“The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.”
“The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.”

Source : "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.
“Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.”
“For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.”

Source : George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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