Normal Quotes - Page 7

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.

My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.