Thomas Szasz

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when…

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is…

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic…

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power…

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to…

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence…

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self…

No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of…

If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have…

Individual psychotherapy – that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human…

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent…

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually…

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not…