Quotes About Sane

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

If you get committed you get certified but if you commit yourself you dont. They figure that you must be reasonably sane of you wouldnt have show up. On your own. ... If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.

We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

As for serial killers, "Only 3.6 percent have been declared incompetent for trial or cleared by reason of insanity," according to one expert. Even a severely delusional psychotic like Herbert Mullin—who believed he could ward off an apocalyptic earthquake by slaughtering strangers—was deemed "sane by legal standards" and convicted of murder.

One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. I do not doubt it at all, and that is precisely why I find it disturbing. If all the Nazis had been psychotics . . . their appalling cruelty would have been in some sense easier to understand. Thomas Merton, Reflections

If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.

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.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Authors. Even the sane one are nuts. - Da Vinci Code

Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.   Inside

no nation was better at creating metaphors for itself than America; in this case, the vision of a beautiful, sane, safe, marble future that is all dream and no marble to sustain it.

The existential psychiatrist R. D. Laing--a radical critic, like Brown, of received wisdom, and similarly inclined to see mental illness as a sane response to an insane world, even as a form of shamanic journey--described in one of his early books what he called the ontologically secure person.

The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

I knew I wasn't mad mad because I'd seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth. The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.

They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

a nonderanged boss

This is sane. It is normal to feel judged by magic walls. I am a perfectly sane queen with a well-functioning brain and everything is fine.

Our devotion to a teacher has nothing to do with his or her lifestyle or worldly accomplishments. It's their state of mind, the quality of their heart that we resonate with. When it comes to my teacher Chögyam Trungpa, he was so outrageous in his behavior that I could never model myself after him. But I do try to model myself on his way of being. He showed me by his example that we can rouse ourselves fearlessly and encourage one another to be sane.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

you're a sane person, progressives would need to consider your views like reasonable adults. But because they don't want to question their narrow, dogmatic worldview, they categorize you as extreme. This enables them to completely dismiss you without feeling bad.