Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were a >>

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more >>

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rare >>

Quotations about Doubt

Despair is the conclusion of fools. >>

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. >>

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. >>

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Szasz, Thomas