In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCThe nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCLabor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThe first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911