Sanity

Sanity denotes one's mind being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally.

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• 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

• So I had to face the fact that I was blessed with abilities that were considered symptoms of emotional abnormality or mental derangement by psychology, often thought of as demonic by religion, and whose very existence was denied altogether by science. So in my darker moments I used to think that my psychic initiation and subsequent experiences were a mixed bag, to say the least. But the fact is that I was very sensitive to criticism for the very good reason that often I shared many of the beliefs that stimulated it.
  • Jane Roberts in The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto, p. 48

See also

• insanity