Sane Quotes - page 4

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. (Marguerite Young)
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane. View quote
Will Oldham
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. View quote
José Martí
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. View quote
Germaine Greer
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
My body is such that I remain sane even after drinking all my buddies under the table. View quote
Gennady Yanayev
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light." View quote
Horace Mann
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo... the country is perfectly safe so far as Communism is concerned-we have too many sane people. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent. View quote
Alain de Botton
In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy. View quote
Edmund Cooper
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. (Edward Dahlberg)
I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive. View quote
Harry Houdini
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart. View quote
Jim Butcher
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. View quote
Joseph McCabe
Every man has a sane spot somewhere. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
friend!-Will the ballot-box raise the Noblest to the chief place; does any sane man deliberately believe such a thing? View quote
Thomas Carlyle
No solitary miscreant, scarcely any solitary maniac, would venture on such actions and imaginations, as large communities of sane men have, in such circumstances, entertained as sound wisdom. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
For the Able Man, meet him where you may, is definable as the born enemy of Falsity and Anarchy, and the born soldier of Truth and Order: into what absurdest element soever you put him, he is there to make it a little less absurd, to fight continually with it till it become a little sane and human again. Peace on other terms he, for his part, cannot make with it; not he, while he continues able, or possessed of real intellect and not imaginary. There is but one man fraught with blessings for this world, fated to diminish and successively abolish the curses of the world; and it is he. For him make search, him reverence and follow; know that to find him or miss him, means victory or defeat for you, in all Downing Streets, and establishments and enterprises here below. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I believed all along, one day everyone would go mad just to see me sane. (Suman Pokhrel)
mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. View quote
Roland Barthes
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis. View quote
Robert Hughes
I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The best it can do is substitute one kind of war for another. You said, no killing of humans by other humans. So I dreamed up the Aliens. Your own ideas are sane and rational, but this is my unconscious you're trying to use, not my rational mind. Maybe rationally I could conceive of the human species not trying to kill each other off by nations, in fact rationally it's easier to conceive of than the motives of war. But you're handling something outside reason. You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin