Thomas Szasz
"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."
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"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."
"كثيرًا ما يقال إن فلانًا لم يجد نفسه بعد. لكن الذات ليست شيئًا يُعثر عليه، بل هي شيء يُصنع."
Thomas Szasz
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget."
"الغبي لا يسامح ولا ينسى، الساذج يسامح وينسى، أما الحكيم فيسامح ولا ينسى."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
"إن كل فعل من أفعال التعلم الواعي يستلزم الاستعداد لتحمل جرح في كبرياء المرء. ولهذا السبب، يتعلم الأطفال الصغار بسهولة بالغة، قبل أن يدركوا أهمية ذواتهم."
Thomas Szasz
"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
"النرجسي: مصطلح تحليلي يشير إلى من يحب ذاته أكثر مما يرى محلله، وهو تجلٍ لمرض نفسي خطير يعتمد علاجه الناجح على تعلم المريض أن يحب المحلل أكثر ويحب ذاته أقل."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
Thomas Szasz
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
Thomas Szasz
"The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
Thomas Szasz
"Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer."
Thomas Szasz
"Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults."
Thomas Szasz
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget."
Thomas Szasz
"The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
Thomas Szasz
"The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity."
Thomas Szasz
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
Thomas Szasz
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