I think my personality type, sometimes referred to as the vigilant personality, can seem prone to paranoia. It seems that way to me a lot. It’s not the kind of paranoia where I think that my family is putting poison in my coffee or anything like that. It’s just that I have a sense that things happen for a reason and that there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. I think it also comes from an allergy to bullshit and dishonesty. Here are some good quotations on paranoia:
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No matter how paranoid I get, it’s never enough to keep up.
Freedom is just a hallucination created by a pathological lack of paranoia.
“There are two kinds of paranoia: Total, and insufficient. I am both, because if you think you are sufficiently paranoid, you’re not.”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“When everyone is out to get to you, being paranoid isn’t going to help.” –
– Q, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Paranoia is only the leading edge of the discovery that everything in the world is connected.”
– The Illuminatus Trilogy
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you – Nirvana