The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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 in The Second Sin, Emotions (1973)
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, Science and Scientism (1973)
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
quote by Thomas Szasz
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!