Quotes about sanity

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

— Georges Bataille

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

— Anatole France

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

— Carl Jung

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

— Akiro Kurosawa

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

— Ursula K. LeGuin

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

— George Santayana

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

— George Bernard Shaw