Logo
Quote by Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone fou

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Art
Author
Marcel Proust
Read Quote

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

Category:
Mental Illness
Author
Marcel Proust
Read Quote

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Paradox
Author
Marcel Proust
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sanity
category

Sanity is madness put to good uses. – George Santayana, Little Essays

Category:
Sanity

I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Sanity

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. – Carl Gustav Jung

Category:
Sanity

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Sanity

Random Quotes

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. – Jeremy Collier

Category:
Happiness

I like villains because theres something so attractive about a committed person — they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. Theyre motivated. – Russell Crowe

Category:
Commitment

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. – Joseph Henry

Category:
great

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. – John Huston Finley

Category:
Maturity