You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them...
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Sarah Schulman
Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.
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Anonymous
What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?”“ He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.”“ Do you believe he is a saint?”“ God only knows, and never better said. He might...
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Anonymous
) “Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?”“ It’s difficult to explain. It isn’t a voice like anything I’ve ever heard before. It isn’t a man or a woman, it’s God.”“How do you know?”“ Because the...
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Anonymous
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Thomas Szasz
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.
Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
