#ill

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#double #error #expression #face #illusion

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#count #friends #him #privacies #retail

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#easier #faith #find #keep #live

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#his #hold #pass #sage #tongue

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#hence #illness #mental #mental illness #psychotherapy

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#course #exist #hence #illness #literally

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #healing #illness #medicine #nothing

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#errors #out #shut #truth #will

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four