Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in >>

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All tha >>

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. >>

Quotations about Education

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s! >>

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 19 >>

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystalli >>

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

Szasz, Thomas