Thomas Szasz
American ⋅ Psychologist ⋅ BioThomas Stephen Szasz was an American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.
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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.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.
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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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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
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In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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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.
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The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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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.
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
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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.
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