Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
Quotes about derangement (9 Quotes)
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs.
The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar For he reaches the unknown ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility.