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Thomas Szasz Quotes

American - Psychologist | April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Courage Intelligence Thinking Clear

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Forgiveness Wise Stupid Forget Naive

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

Time Serenity Boredom Feeling Waste

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Animal Human Eat Kingdom Rule Eaten

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Funny Good Right Two Make Excuse

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.

People Self Person Say Something

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.

Age Childhood Old Age Aim Old

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Healing Medicine Conversation Nothing

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.

Leadership Learning Children Learn

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.

Life Work Relationship Philosophy

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

God You Talk Schizophrenia Praying

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.

Mental Illness Way Same Illness Only

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