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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.
The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
