"Delusion: belief said to be false by someone……" — Thomas Szasz

"Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it."

— Thomas Szasz

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85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a…
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his…
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling…
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and…
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have…
Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a…
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a…

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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