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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American writer, physician it is his reasonable conversation which mostly frightens us in a madman.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author.
We must remember that every “mental” symptom is a veiled cry of anguish. Against what? Against oppression, or what the patient experiences as oppression. The oppressed speak a million tongues…
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
Schizophrenic behavior is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
If a patient is poor he is committed a public hospital as a “psychotic”. If he can afford a sanatorium, the diagnosis is “neurasthenia”. If he is wealthy enough to be in his own home under the constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply “an indisposed eccentric.”
Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said of poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.
Sterne.
The insane, for the most part, reason correctly, but from false principles, while they do not perceive that their premises are incorrect.
Tryon Edwards.
The consummation of madness is, to do what, at the time of doing it, we intend to be afterward sorry for: the deliberate and intentional making of work for repentance.
W.Nevins.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or of heaven.
Moore.
Locke says the distinction between a madman and a fool is that a fool is he that from right principle makes a wrong conclusion; but a madman is one who draws a just inference from false principles. Thus the fool who cut off the fellow’s head that lay asleep, and hid it, and then waited to see what he would say when he awaked and missed his head piece, was in the right in the first thought, that a man would be surprised to find such an alteration in things since he fell asleep; but he was a little mistaken to imagine he could awake at all after his head was cut off.
Tatler.
How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are; a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of !.
Shakespeare.
He raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattered wide from sense. So high he’s mounted on his airy throne, that now the wind has got into his head; and turns his brains to frenzy.
Dryden.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden.
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides, fragment.
Have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
Shakespeare
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American writer, physician it is his reasonable conversation which mostly frightens us in a madman.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author.
We must remember that every “mental” symptom is a veiled cry of anguish. Against what? Against oppression, or what the patient experiences as oppression. The oppressed speak a million tongues…
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
Schizophrenic behavior is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
If a patient is poor he is committed a public hospital as a “psychotic”. If he can afford a sanatorium, the diagnosis is “neurasthenia”. If he is wealthy enough to be in his own home under the constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply “an indisposed eccentric.”
Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said of poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.
Sterne.
The insane, for the most part, reason correctly, but from false principles, while they do not perceive that their premises are incorrect.
Tryon Edwards.
The consummation of madness is, to do what, at the time of doing it, we intend to be afterward sorry for: the deliberate and intentional making of work for repentance.
W.Nevins.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or of heaven.
Moore.
Locke says the distinction between a madman and a fool is that a fool is he that from right principle makes a wrong conclusion; but a madman is one who draws a just inference from false principles. Thus the fool who cut off the fellow’s head that lay asleep, and hid it, and then waited to see what he would say when he awaked and missed his head piece, was in the right in the first thought, that a man would be surprised to find such an alteration in things since he fell asleep; but he was a little mistaken to imagine he could awake at all after his head was cut off.
Tatler.
How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are; a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of !.
Shakespeare.
He raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattered wide from sense. So high he’s mounted on his airy throne, that now the wind has got into his head; and turns his brains to frenzy.
Dryden.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden.
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides, fragment.
Have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
Shakespeare
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