There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
More Quotes from Thomas Szasz:
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.Thomas Szasz
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
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
Thomas Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
Thomas Szasz
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.--
Thomas Szasz
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Psychology QuotesBe wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
Harold Russell
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
George Takei