Thomas Szasz

1920–2012

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) was a Hungarian-American psychiatrist and longtime professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Known for The Myth of Mental Illness, he challenged coercion and the use of psychiatric language as social control; The Second Sin presents his observations in aphoristic form.

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“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is”

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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget”

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“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse”

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