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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 31 quotes by Thomas Szasz This article may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints, or discuss the issue on the talk page. (August 2013) Thomas Szasz Thomas Szasz Born (1920-04-15)April 15, 1920 Budapest, Hungary Died September 8, 2012(2012-09-08) (aged 92) Manlius, New York, United States Nationality Hungarian Fields Psychiatry Institutions State University of New York, State University of... Read full biography of Thomas Szasz → 1 2 3 Ctrl → The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. 0 Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. 0 Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. 0 Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are... → 0 If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. 0 Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to... → 0 No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated... → 0 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. 0 It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty... → 0 Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a... → 0 People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. 0 Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and... → 0 Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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