Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
Interpretation
Overthinking can be detrimental to one's mental health, much like a disease.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde suggests that excessive thinking is harmful and can lead to negative consequences for mental well-being, comparable to physical illness. He contrasts this idea with the notion that while thought itself may be dangerous, it is not something that can easily spread from one person to another, indicating a certain level of personal responsibility in managing one's thoughts.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health, one might quote Wilde to emphasize the risks of overthinking.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
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