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No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not t

No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. – Thomas Szasz

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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Justice & Law
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Thomas Szasz
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – Thomas Szasz

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Learning
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Human nature is above all things lazy. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. – Xun Zi

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. – Tanith Lee

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The bastard! He doesnt exist! – Samuel Beckett

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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. – Gianfranco Ferre

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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects. – Orson Pratt

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