Sane

Famous quotes containing the word sane:

“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“No sane person should believe that something is ‘subjective’ merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”
—Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)

“What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)