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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
"No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Rigid conformity can make a life fragile, while flexibility and play allow a person to adapt.
Key takeaway:
Leave room for spontaneity without treating the language as a clinical judgment.
Origin of the quote
The Joyous Cosmology (1962)
Who actually said this?
Book extract contains the sentence; sane and insane are rhetorical contrasts here, not clinical categories.
