Category: Thomas Szasz

Categories
Thomas Szasz Time

Thomas Szasz | time

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

Categories
teacher Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | teacher

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Categories
society Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | society

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Categories
society Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | society

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.

Categories
science Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | science

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.

Categories
Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | respect

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Categories
religion Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | religion

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.

Categories
relationship Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | relationship

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.

Categories
Nature Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | nature

No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Categories
men Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz | men

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

86 positive affirmations before test for students triumph. Ahead of your visit to in love club, here are some tips to enhance your wedding dress shopping experience. Remember, the key to a successful ‘small outdoor wedding near me’ is in the details.