Quote by Thomas Szasz (1920-2012)

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. Hungarian-American psychiatrist and activist (1920–2012)

Happiness

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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.
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.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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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