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Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.

— Alexander Chase Rhoda Thomas Tripp (1970)

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.

Jonathon Green (1988)

For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment.

Jonathon Green (1988)

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Anna Hart (1988)

Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant.

Wesley Douglass Camp (1989)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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