"Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing."
- Neel Burton
"As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no symptoms in common can both end up with the same unitary diagnosis of depression. For this reason e..."
"No one ever pays to learn the most important things."
"Philosophy gives life to life."
"Maths is at only one remove from magic."
"A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't."
"Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity, and also with the natural world, which quickens ..."
"Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a ..."
"A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illn..."
"One of the central tenets of the Western worldview is that one should always be engaged in some kind of outward task. Thus, the Westerner structures his time—including, sometimes, even his leisure tim..."