What does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it? It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousness...Do they ignore parts of reality? Yes. But it is more. It is their plans...Their view; it is cosmic...They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles of space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author defines insanity as seeing beyond the present into a fatal cosmic view.
- In plain terms
- Insanity is seeing beyond normal reality.
- What can you take from it?
- Insanity may involve a fatal cosmic perspective.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is the definition of sanity?
- Is seeing deep reality dangerous?
Another view
It medicalizes a philosophical viewpoint too narrowly.
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