Thomas Szasz Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

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.

Christian Science denies illness; it defines and perceives sickness as sin

Atheist Science denies evil; it defines and perceives sin as sickness.

We often confuse them in order to confuse, and thereby to control, others.

Your self-liberation will be complete when you are left with constraints to which you willingly, perhaps even eagerly, submit.

Szasz, Thomas. Words to the Wise (p. 85). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

The three monomanias of modern man: Monotheism, monogamy, and monomedicine.

Modern libertarian economists have hijacked the idea of liberty: they have made freedom appear to be a by-product of the free market. This is a fallacy. Economic growth and material prosperity neither guarantee freedom nor are a measure of it.

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Freedom of religion means freedom from religious domination and persecution. Similarly, freedom of medicine means freedom from medical domination and persecution.

Freedom is what most people want for themselves, and what they most want to deprive others of.

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

The marriage certificate is proof of heterosexual normality. Many young people need it, to convince themselves and others that they are OK.

Psychiatrists construct elaborate explanations for why people marry and divorce. But the meaning of these acts is fairly self-evident. What requires explanation is why individuals stay married.

Modern marriage is so difficult an arrangement because it is neither a truly contractual relationship nor a truly status relationship. Hence it is that neither husband nor wife can be sure exactly what each can expect of the other

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a private one. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a B.A.; marriage an M.A.; and children a Ph.D.

Formerly, the young woman who engaged in sexual acts was called “promiscuous.” Now, she is called “sexually active.” It is virtually impossible to describe human behavior without expressing approval or disapproval, praise or blame. *

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Philosophers, psychiatrists, and lay persons alike regularly use the term “irrational” without defining its meaning.

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Being helped to do what we can do for ourselves is likely to de-mean us, whether we know it or not. The weaker the person helped—the child, the poor, the sick—the more unnecessary help demeans him.

For the theist, God is the sum of all the possibilities he can imagine. For the atheist, he is the sum of all the impossibilities he can imagine.

If you want to preserve your integrity, you must learn the secret of getting along without going along, which requires, above all else, being civil and respectful toward people with whom you want to get along but not go along.

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The excitement and mystery of gambling lies in a neglected characteristic of the experience—namely, the subjective sense of being in complete control of one’s decisions.