Quotes Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a righ...

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

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and...

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; s...

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence....

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neuro...

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to ...

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mis...

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by ...

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attribut...

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject ...

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talk...

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, yo...

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the ...

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. ...

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves him...

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' ...

People often say that this or that person has not yet found ...

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if t...

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medi...

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral ...

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that fe...

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and...

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are....

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiog...