Wilmshurst Psychopathology Quotes & Sayings

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical. — Michel De Montaigne

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul. — Isaac Asimov

When I look closely at dairy, I see the hurtful exploitation of specifically female bodies so that some people can enjoy sensual pleasures of consumption while others enjoy the psychological pleasure of collecting profits from the exertions of somebody else's body. Cows are forcibly impregnated, dispossessed of their children, and then painfully robbed of the milk produced by their bodies for those children. No wonder I didn't want to see my complicity! Most women don't consciously perceive the everyday violence against girls and women that permeates and structures our society. How much harder it is, then, to see the gendered violence against nonhuman animals behind the everyday items on the grocery store shelf. When we, as women, partake of that violence, we participate in sexism even as we enjoy the illusory benefits of speciesism. No wonder a glimpse of the sexist violence behind my breakfast cereal left me dizzy. — Pattrice Jones

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable. — Daniel Handler

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. — Herman Melville

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it. — Rick Wakeman

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did. — Will Cuppy

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. — George Santayana