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Top 31 Thomas Szasz Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

― Thomas Szasz

“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”

― Thomas Szasz

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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 to yourself, you are considered selfish.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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 aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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.”

― Thomas Szasz

“In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.”

― Thomas Szasz

“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”

― Thomas Szasz

“No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”

― Thomas Szasz

“The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Individual psychotherapy – that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship – requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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 which other theoretical concepts exist.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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.”

― Thomas Szasz

“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.”

― Thomas Szasz

“He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.”

― Thomas Szasz

“There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.”

― Thomas Szasz

“’Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.”

― Thomas Szasz

“There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.”

― Thomas Szasz

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”

― Thomas Szasz

“The system isn’t stupid, but the people in it are.”

― Thomas Szasz

“If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.”

― Thomas Szasz

“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

― Thomas Szasz

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