He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
- Thomas Szasz
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- The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
- Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
- Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why...
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not...
- When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or...
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- We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and...
- Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning,...
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