Thomas Szasz Quotes

Most popular Thomas Szasz Quotes

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

certainty doubt

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

thinking courage

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

psychiatrist

Sex is a body-contact sport.  It is safe to watch but more fun to play. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Sex is a body-contact sport.  It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
— Thomas Szasz Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth About Today’s Sex Therapy

sex

Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

anxiety

Courage is the willingness to play even when you know the odds are against you. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Courage is the willingness to play even when you know the odds are against you.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

courage

As the internal-combustion engine runs on gasoline, so the person runs on self-esteem. - Thomas Szasz quote.
As the internal-combustion engine runs on gasoline, so the person runs on self-esteem.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

self-esteem

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
— Thomas Szasz Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

learning self-esteem

A child becomes an adult when he realizes he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz quote.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
— Thomas Szasz

life

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz quote.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

growing up Adulthood

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz quote.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
— Thomas Szasz

introspection identity

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body.  Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect, and you kill his spirit. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body.  Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect, and you kill his spirit.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

self-respect

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, people mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, people mistake medicine for magic. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, people mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, people mistake medicine for magic.
— Thomas Szasz
How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory. - Thomas Szasz quote.
How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

men and women

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. - Thomas Szasz quote.
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.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

duty

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in  short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work. - Thomas Szasz quote.
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in  short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

work

The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. - Thomas Szasz quote.
The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

conviction

There are only three major ethical modes of conduct.  
1. The Golden Rule: doing unto others as we would want them to do unto us.
2.  The Rule of Respect: doing unto others as they want us to do unto them. 
3. The Rule of Paternalism: doing unto others as we, in our superior wisdom, know what ought to be done unto them in their own best interests. - Thomas Szasz quote.
There are only three major ethical modes of conduct.  
1. The Golden Rule: doing unto others as we would want them to do unto us.
2.  The Rule of Respect: doing unto others as they want us to do unto them. 
3. The Rule of Paternalism: doing unto others as we, in our superior wisdom, know what ought to be done unto them in their own best interests.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin

golden rules

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

self-esteem

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 The Second Sin

know yourself the self

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.
— Thomas Szasz

work