"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."

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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."

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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."

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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."

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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."

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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."

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