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What does it mean?
He claims sanity includes the willingness to oppose popular British opinion.
In plain terms
He says being sane means disagreeing with most Britons.
What can you take from it?
Critical thinking may go against the crowd.

Where it applies

  • political debate
  • social media discussions

Putting it to work

  • question prevailing views

Questions to consider

  • When is dissent a sign of sanity?
  • How do we balance independence with social harmony?

Another view

Not all majority opinions are wrong.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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  2. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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  3. In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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