Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – Thomas Szasz
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. – Thomas Szasz
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. – Thomas Szasz
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979