David Rosenhan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.
-- David Rosenhan

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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
I don't use many apps. I use naps.
You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

David Rosenhan famous quotes

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