A Quote by Thomas Szasz
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
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In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.
Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.
Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
I have a real hard time classifying anything as my biggest moment, my favorite color or whatever.
Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.
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