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"That society, then, would simply be correct," I said. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #602)

For example, an individual who believed in, say, magic, assuming that sense could be made of that concept, in a society which believed in magic, would not normally be accounted insane. Similarly, such a society, though it might be regarded as being deluded, would not, in all likelihood, be regarded as insane". "What if there were such a thing as magic?" she asked. "That society, then, would simply be correct," I said. "What of these people who were just here?" she asked. "Are they not insane?" "By carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure". "I think they are mad, insane," she said. - (Savages of Gor)