We're All Mad Here: The No-Nonsense Guide to Living with Social Anxiety

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I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very politely, “`if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.” The following quotes are often mistakenly attributed to the original Alice in Wonderland books. However, they are in fact from other people, songs, or movies based on the books. we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.”

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Explore the philosophy of Alice in Wonderland. Unravel characters, quotes & spiritual metaphors from one of a revolutionary children’s book. You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!” I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is–‘Be what you would seem to be’–or if you’d like it put more simply–‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'” If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?’ The Mad Hatter : Oh, still waters run deep, my dear. It’s always been my philosophy that people should take what they want from life.Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?” When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.” Besides, if you ever did eat some bad food, I could still find a use for you. I've always wanted a cat-drawn carriage."

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He grinned. But it wasn't just like the Cheshire Cat's smile. There was warmth in it, and even love. It seems that Carroll disagreed with this assertion, as both the Alice books show. In fact, Humpty Dumpy tells Alice ‘there are three hundred and sixty four days when you might get un-birthday presents’. Carroll here seems to follow the ideas of another natural philosopher: Heraclitus.

Tim Burton is known for his crazy, fantastical and whimsical approach to films, which comes across in the most colorful way in his version of Alice in Wonderland, as well as Through the Looking Glass, and he has taken certain creative liberties with the story so Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter has some lines that are not in the original work. Despite all the rules normally associated at a tea party and the pleasant socialising also associated with it, the tea party is nothing but a function of chaos in ‘Alice in Wonderland’! There are no rules here, and everyone present at the tea party is operating beyond social constraints. Alice Kingsley: “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Alice: “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

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In Alice in Wonderland, society and its justice system seem to be governed by fools and the result is abuse and oppression. Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.” You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Cheshire Cat says “We’re all mad here”. This dialogue happens when Alice says,“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” to which Cheshire Cat says, “Oh, you can’t help that,” “we’re all mad here. Citations It is the White Rabbit which Alice runs after and searches for endlessly in Wonderland, a symbol of her quest for knowledge. Just when things seem rather desperate the rabbit appears yet again, and Alice drives on through. Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.”