About Thomas Szasz
1920 – 2012
Hungarian-American psychiatrist and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness".
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“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
“Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.”
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”