personal development on Insanity

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am ...

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”

“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”

Some years ago I received a letter from a young man I knew slightly. ‘I have just made a great discovery,’ he wrote. ‘Almighty God had two sons. Jesus Christ was the first; I am the second.’ I glanced...

The average child today exhibits the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.