"There is no psychology; there is only biography……" — Thomas Szasz

"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."

— 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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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is… — Kate Atkinson
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. — Mary J. Blige
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data… — Nicholas Delbanco
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of… — Marilyn Ferguson
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so… — Philip Roth
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when… — Nikola Tesla
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla

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