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Mental Quotes
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. - Karl Kraus Quotes
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. Thats how I lost my mind. - Steve Allen Quotes
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is! - James Payn Quotes
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. - Theodore Dreiser Quotes
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer. - Keith Moon Quotes
I didnt want to do a zoo show. I didnt want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life. - Daniel Craig Quotes
No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. - Thomas Szasz Quotes
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. - Elsa Maxwell Quotes
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of ones faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of ones memories. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. - John Dewey Quotes
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. - Mark Dayton Quotes
I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You cant be detached. - Charles Bronson Quotes
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity youre subjected to. My God. - Kate Millett Quotes
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - W H Auden Quotes
Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority. - Thomas Huxley Quotes
Romantic love is mental illness. But its a pleasurable one. Its a drug. It distorts reality, and thats the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. - Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson Quotes
Im struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. - Brian Eno Quotes
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. - Wilhelm Wundt Quotes
Theres not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. - Anthony Hecht Quotes
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. Its downright bad for your health now, and thats not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. - Tom Petty Quotes
And, as I have said, its made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits arent external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. - James Merrill Quotes
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mothers poor mental health. - Jean Piaget Quotes
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist. - Alex Cox Quotes
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value. - Samuel Alexander Quotes
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. - Dick Fosbury Quotes
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. - Polly Toynbee Quotes
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. - W Clement Stone Quotes
Its the boredom that kills you. You read until youre tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until youre tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. - Jack Kevorkian Quotes
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. - John Stuart Mill Quotes
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