Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
- 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.
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- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not...
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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,...
- In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
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- What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
- The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.
- The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if...
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