A white egg with a gold-filled crack resting in an ornate brass stand against a muted plum background.

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Carl Gustav Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The promise of a cure is aimed at someone described as sane, reversing what a listener would normally expect. That contradiction makes the offer unsettling and funny. The quip treats sanity itself as something that could be disturbed by the supposed remedy.

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