Thomas Szasz Quotes

Thomas Szasz — American Psychologist born on April 15, 1920, died on September 08, 2012

Thomas Stephen Szasz was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and academic. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, of what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, and scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness and The Manufacture of Madness set out some of the arguments most associated with him... (wikipedia)

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.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

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

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

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.

Thomas Szasz Quotes

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