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“As long as you’re stuck with the old conventions, insanity is going to be a “misunderstanding of the object by the subject.” The object is real, the subject is mistaken. The only problem is how to change the subject’s mind back to a correct comprehension of objective reality.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That's what the insanity is. She's adjusting to something. The insanity is the adjustment. Insanity isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in a right direction. It wasn't necessarily a disease. It could be part of a cure.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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