Sublime

In short, he is simply a sane man, and of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

the writer Charles Bukowski said: ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’

In the circumstances, it makes no sense to aim for sanity; we should fix instead on the goal of achieving a wise, knowledgeable and self-possessed relationship with our manifold insanities, or what can be termed ‘sane insanity’. What separates the sane insane from the simply insane is the honest, personable and accurate grasp they have on what is n

É muito contraintuitivo de nossa parte nos considerarmos loucos. Parecemos tão normais e quase sempre tão bons — a nós mesmos. Todos os outros é que estão fora do compasso... E, no entanto, a maturidade começa com a capacidade de perceber e, em bom tempo e sem defesas, reconhecer nossa própria loucura. Se não ficamos a todo momento constrangidos co

La figure du sage montrant la parfaite conversion reprend les différentes catégories parcourues. Il est un modèle vivant de rationalité, de maîtrise de soi, rendant un culte à la vertu et à l’autonomie uniquement 1. Ces qualités, l’intériorisation du bien moral et la recherche du meilleur état de son âme, fournissent la formule idéale de l’éthique

I mean that he felt the full insanity of all extreme tendencies, because he was himself so sane; he felt eccentricities, because he was in the centre.

System 1 is automatic and deeply influential, but it is susceptible to illusion, and you depend on System 2 to help you manage yourself: by checking your impulses, planning ahead, identifying choices, thinking through their implications, and staying in charge of your actions.