"Diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bip…"

"But when the madman laughs, he already laughs with the laugh of death; the lunatic, anticipating the macabre, has dis…"

"The elements are now reversed. It is no longer the end of time and of the world which will show retrospectively that …"

"At the opposite pole to this nature of shadows, madness fascinates because it is knowledge. It is knowledge, first, b…"

"If folly leads each man into a blindness where he is lost, the madman, on the contrary, reminds each man of his truth…"

"This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses. While the man of…"

"Thus the image is burdened with supplementary meanings, and forced to express them. And dreams, madness, the unreason…"

"Up to the second half of the fifteenth century, or even a little beyond, the theme of death reigns alone. The end of …"

"Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, no…"

"By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, [psychiatri…"