3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
