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Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz

American Psychologist

Born: Apr 15, 1920

Died: Sep 8, 2012

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz

Forgiveness Wise Stupid Neither Naive Nor Forget Forgive

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

People Say Finds Something Self Himself Person Often Creates Found

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz

God You Schizophrenia Talk Talks Praying

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. Thomas Szasz

Funny Good Excuse Wrongs Make Right Two

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz

Time Feeling Nothing Everything Boredom Serenity Waste Waste Of Time

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

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

You Yourself Bite Prevents Feeding Feeds Proverb Hand Maybe Should

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

Animal Rule Define Defined Eat Eaten Kingdom Human

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz

Only Autobiography Psychology Biography

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

Time Others Laugh Longer Him Himself Person

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

God You Schizophrenic Talk Dead Talks

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. Thomas Szasz

Conversation Healing Nothing Medicine Private Confidential Psychotherapy Illness

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

Other Way Physical Object Mental Mental Illness Only Concepts Sort Course Exist Same Literally Which Theoretical Illness Hence Thing

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. Thomas Szasz

Men Past Mental Witches Patients In The Past Create Created Now

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

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

People Stupid System

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

Love Learning Patient Analyst Considered Dire Mental More Term Himself Narcissist His Than Person Disease Depends Psychoanalytic Manifestation Loves To Love Successful Less Who Whose Treatment

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

Happiness Living Adult Dead Attributed Condition Children Now Imaginary

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