Thomas Szasz Quotes

‘The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘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

‘If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘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 proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘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