Thomas Szasz
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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 or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.