#p

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#forgive #naive #neither #nor #stupid

Man, Duke and I work our fannies off. We don't eat expensive dinners out. We don't go to the mvies or buy our clothes anywhere but Kmart--our biggest treat is taking the kids to Walmart on Friday nights, having a fast food hamburger and doing the grocery shopping. ↗

— Lori Copeland

#shopping #small-town-life #food

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. ↗

— Alyssa Reyans

#bipolar-disorder #depression #mental-illness #mood-disorders #mental-illness

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#prisoners #science-fiction #freedom

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either. ↗

— Paul Berman

#freedom-of-religion #religion #freedom

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#girl-interrupted #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#cat #feeding #food #houseguest #humor

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself". ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#mental-illness #mental-illness

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive. ↗

— Pat Barker

#mental-illness #ptsd #trauma #war #mental-illness