Quote by Thomas Szasz
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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

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Happiness
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

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Ridicule
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison

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Nature

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. – George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896

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Nature

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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Nature

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

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Beauty

The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams

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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. – NapoleonI

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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. – Tracy Kidder

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