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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our…

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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content…
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are…
Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal…
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and…
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who…
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as…
Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and… — Lucretius
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,… — Alice Meynell
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it… — Pope Pius XII
Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. — John Owen
Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life,… — Rajneesh
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness. — Robert Browning
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but… — Pericles
Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah,… — Brigitte Gabriel
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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