"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak,……" — 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."
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85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz
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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
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Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his…
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling…
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and…
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have…
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a…
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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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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More Formerly Quotes
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh…
— Giacomo Casanova
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It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
— Ovid
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
— David Hume
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the…
— Doug Larson
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Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any…
— Oswald Spengler
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Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no…
— Bertrand Russell
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five…
— Woody Allen
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Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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