Quotes About Sanity

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

Art is man determined to die sane.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

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.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.