“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.”
J. G. Ballard book Running Wild
Running Wild (1988)
“There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.”
James Jones book The Thin Red Line
"Old midwestern saying" created by Jones for his story, as stated in James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master (1998) by Steven R. Carter
The Thin Red Line (1962)
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Overman Culture (1971)
“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
Poems
“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night