“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
1990s
Context: Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
The Ad-dressing of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Context: You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse —
But all may be described in verse.
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
