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What did Thomas Szasz say?

  • "Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
  • "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."
  • "Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
  • "In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."
  • "Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
  • "Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
  • "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
  • "There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
  • "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
  • "If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
  • "If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
  • "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
  • "Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
  • "A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
  • "Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
  • "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 makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
  • "He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
  • "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
  • "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."
  • "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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