Citations
“Many people are seized by one and the same affect with great consistency. All his senses are so strongly affected by one object that he believes this object to be present even if it is not. If this happens while the person is awake, the person is believed to be insane but if the greedy person thinks only of money and possessions, the ambitious one only of fame, one does not think of them as being insane, but only as annoying; generally one has contempt for them. But factually greediness, ambition, and so forth are forms of insanity, although usually one does not think of them as illness”
- Spinoza, Ethics
“The fact that milions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that milions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
- E.Fromm, The Sane Society
“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
- Arthur Stringer
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
- Laurence J. Peter
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
- Harry Shearer
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
- Miguel de Cervantes