Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living…

“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.”

Thomas Szasz · Happiness

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Time

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No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Nature

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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

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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.

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