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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only...  
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.  
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political proble...  
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. ...  
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, t...  
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.  
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in ...  
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an ...  
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic...   Society
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living...  
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does ...  
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have sch...  
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human king...  
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat chi...  
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the stand...  
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do ...  
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; an...  
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteent...  
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rare...  
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more ...  
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the...  
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. B...  
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.  
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications...  
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctio...   Society
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' ...  
The proverb warns; "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you...  
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; t...  
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.  
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.