The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do. — Gregory Bateson
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. — William James
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. — Viktor E. Frankl
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. — Guy Fawkes
It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it. — Anthony Storr
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy — Abraham Maslow
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions. — Thomas Szasz
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. — Lemn Sissay
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. — Barbara Brennan
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. — Hosea Ballou
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest — Alfred Adler
Short Pathological Quotes
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized. — Gad Saad
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. — Naomi Judd
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. — Robert Lowell
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself. — George Soros
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. — Patrick Carnes
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. — Erich Fromm
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. — Horace
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good. — Marshall Ganz
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people. — Mitt Romney
There’s evidence that on average people are checking emails 74 times a day switching tasks every 10 minutes and that creates what’s been called time confetti where we take what could be meaningful moments of our lives and we shred them into increasingly tiny useless pieces. — Adam Grant
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them. — A.C. Grayling
When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions. — Tarthang Tulku
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now? — Adora Svitak
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. — Gordon B. Hinckley
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models. — Lester B. Pearson
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. — Erich Fromm
Doctors, good doctors, are doing unthinkable things, like injecting biologically active messenger RNA that produces this pathological spike protein into pregnant women. I think when the doctors wake up from their trance they’re going to be shocked to think what they’ve done to people. — Peter A. McCullough
Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one. — Rudolf Virchow
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. — Paul Theroux
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character. — Carl Jung
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 — Ambrose Bierce
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease — John Maynard Keynes
There is a core of what is called science - physics, chemistry, almost all of biology and computer science - that is quite sound. Some of the rest of science is sound. Most of the rest is quite pathological. — Nick Szabo
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle
Let us stop pathologizing masculinity. Instead, let us appreciate the endless ways by which men and women are similar to one another, as well as the important ways in which the two sexes differ. — Gad Saad
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then. — Thomas Sowell
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. — Frank Herbert
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it. — Albert Bandura
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. — Jenny Eclair
Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did. — Carine Roitfeld
Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not. — Dale Archer
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today. — Thomas Sowell
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi. — Arthur Koestler
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it. — Kathy Acker
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. — Richard Selzer
I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy. — Merrill Markoe
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. — Avital Ronell
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior. — Jesse Jackson
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism. — Ramsey Clark
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. — Sigmund Freud
If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way. — John Money
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted. — Alfred Korzybski
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves. — John Piper
Everything is pathology, except for indifference. — Emile M. Cioran
Racism is a visual pathology. — Adrian Piper
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