Absurd Quote by Emile Durkheim

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

— Albert Einstein

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become…

— Erich Fromm

Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and…

— Robert Twigger

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable…

— Susan Sontag

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's…

— Callum Keith Rennie

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice,…

— Sam Savage

“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.”

— Aleister Crowley

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary…

— Anonymous

“Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that…

— Colin Wilson