A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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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
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
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We achieve ''active'' mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.
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Knowledge is gained by learning trust by doubt skill by practice and love by love.
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Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.
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