Sane Quotes

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 193.

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Depression, Crazy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Insane, Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.91, RosettaBooks

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• The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Saint

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Power, Corruption, Favourite

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Inspirational, Crazy, Girl Interrupted

  "Fictional Character: Susanna". "Girl, Interrupted", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• 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

  Depression, Crazy, Insane Person

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

  Erich Fromm

  Quality, Looks, Authority

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.108, Open Road Media

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

  Hermann Hesse

  Insanity, Insane, Method

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• An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, Would Be, Asylums

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• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Two, Brain

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• My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Childhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Insanity

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  A. J. Liebling

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.73, North Point Press

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• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

  Nellie Bly

  Doctors, Asking, Sanity

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.85, Golgotha Press

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• If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Being Different, Mental Health

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• 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

  Men, People, Mad

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• I don't really trust a sane person.

  Lyle Alzado

  Trust, Sanity, Persons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Children, Real, Blessed

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, Guilty, Logical

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