"I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry,……" — Thomas Szasz
"I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science."
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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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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to…
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look…
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