Thomas Szasz
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.
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People often say that this person is 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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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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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.
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If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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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; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
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The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.