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1. "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
2. "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
3. "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
4. "Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." ~ Thomas Szasz
5. "Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. 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
6. "In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined." ~ Thomas Szasz
7. "In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients." ~ Thomas Szasz
8. "The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are." ~ Thomas Szasz
9. "Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist." ~ Thomas Szasz
10. "Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." ~ Thomas Szasz
11. "There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography." ~ Thomas Szasz
12. "If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic." ~ Thomas Szasz
13. "Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver." ~ Thomas Szasz
14. "He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself." ~ Thomas Szasz
15. "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." ~ Thomas Szasz
16. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." ~ Thomas Szasz
17. "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." ~ Thomas Szasz
18. "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." ~ Thomas Szasz
19. "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
20. "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." ~ Thomas Szasz

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Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God."
Author: Andrew Murray

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