Henry Frankenstein: Quite a good scene, isn't it? One man, crazy - three very sane spectators!
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does ...
In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
I went in there only once, as a sane man, and I came out...well, I came out like this. But you, once you come out of there, you'll be a king!
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
94% of psychotics think they're sane, so I guess we must ask ourselves, what is sane?" ~Castiel
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.
I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.
Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. A sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude.
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.'
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
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.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.
