The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in othe...r people's minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho...rse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain deg...ree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged"Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom... of political frustration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The entire construct of the "medical model" of "mental illness"Mwhat is it but an analogy? Between physical medicine and psychiatr...y: the mind is said to be subject to disease in the same manner as the body. But whereas in physical medicine there are verifiable physiological proofs--in damaged or affected tissue, bacteria, inflammation, cellular irregularity--in mental illness alleged socially unacceptable behavior is taken as a symptom, even as proof, of pathology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously... called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »