Thomas Szasz

A psychiatrist and academic.

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4 quotations — 1 Funny, 3 Serious.


  1. You talk to God, you're religious.
    God talks to you, you're schizophrenic.
    1.

  2. Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.
    Courage is the willingness to play even when you know the odds are against you.
    2.
  3. 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.
    3.
  4. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, and, now, usuall, attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    4.