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Y'all are perhaps familiar with the quote, "The first sign of being sane is questioning whether you are sane. The truly insane never question; they just live the insanity." It occurs to me that other things can be plugged into this and it still works well. For example, "The first sign of lacking power is questioning whether you are powerful. The truly powerful never question; they just live the power." (note that I am talking about personal power here, although I suppose it applies as well to temporal power)
This comes up because three times in the past 24 hours or so I have been called brilliant/insightful/wise, with strong phrasing, by people who I myself consider to be in that company. It's starting to go to my head. *crooked smile*
This comes up because three times in the past 24 hours or so I have been called brilliant/insightful/wise, with strong phrasing, by people who I myself consider to be in that company. It's starting to go to my head. *crooked smile*
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Date: Nov. 17th, 2004 09:37 pm (UTC)From:An assumption. My personal symbol-set has several positive associations for insanity, including inspired/divine madness and seeing different (perhaps truer) levels of reality. Here nor there, I understand there is some change in meaning between the two statements, but that's what I was intending to do. I wasn't trying to make a literal translation, so there is no error.