Sane

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"Sane" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Every sane man is accountable to his conscience for his behavior.

He was judged sane and was therefore chargeable with murder.

Hey, are you remotely sane?!

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Truth is pure, but truth is painful. No sane, selfish person would ever accept things for what they are. Such is the masochism inherent in "truth".

No, I don't think Hamlet was actually mad. Whenever he is alone with Horatio, he's sane enough.

He was stressed, certainly, but sane.

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a sane mind

a sane person

Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.

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