Quotes for the Depression Forums 06-24-10

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thank you Stephen for sending these for the Corner.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
-- George Santayana

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
-- Samuel Butler

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
-- Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005