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The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Debuffet

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope

Wallace Stegner

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Robert Southey

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

EURIPIDES

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Mark Twain

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

George Santayana

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity

Lance Bass

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity

William Allen White

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity

Robert Frost

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

Edgar Allan Poe

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Robert Frost

Wallace Stegner

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

Nellie Bly

Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Wallace Stenger

Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Wallace Stenger

When you inhabit any of these three roles, youre reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. Youre always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

David Emerald

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

G.K. CHESTERTON

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance

Luis Miguel

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition

Alvin Toffler

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity

Oscar Wilde

Sanity: that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Erich Fromm

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel