Definition of Sane

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Definition of Sane

Sane

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.

Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

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Sane Quotations

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

No sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller

Sane Translations

sane in Italian is sano di mente
sane in Latin is sanus
sane in Spanish is imputable, sano

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