Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity that nothing is.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity that nothing is.
Author: Thomas Szasz
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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.
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.
Individual psychotherapy – that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship – requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.
Individual psychotherapy – that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship – requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
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.
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.
Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
If you talk to God you are praying If God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
If you talk to God you are praying If God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.