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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

— Thomas Traherne

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

— Buddha

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

— William Hazlitt

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

— Akira Kurosawa

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

— John Dryden

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

— Jay S. Walker

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

— Michael Leunig

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

— Emile M. Cioran

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

— Henry David Thoreau

✗Opposing Perspectives

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

— John Chrysostom