Sanity
Sanity denotes one's mind being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally.
Sourced
- Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
- George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900)
- The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)
- Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage...
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Attributed
- Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Mark Twain
- Sanity may take one of only two forms: either that of ignorance, or denial.
- Derek R. Audette
- Sanity is a little box.
- Charles Manson
Unattributed
- Sanity is for the weak.
- Unknown, but appears as a quote from several Chaos faction units in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
- Only the Insane have Strength enough to Prosper, Only those that Prosper can truly judge what is sane
- Warhammer 40,000
- Who needs sanity?
- Unknown
- Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
- Unknown
- If you are keeping your head while others around you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the whole situation.
- Unknown (parody of Rudyard Kipling's If)