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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung
In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
Akira Kurosawa
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
Nora Ephron
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
Linus Pauling
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
John Updike
No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
Hilary Putnam
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.
Germaine Greer
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard
No sane man will dance.
Cicero
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. Thompson
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
Josiah Willard Gibbs
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Apuleius
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
Ambrose Bierce
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