Doubt is to certainty as

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

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If the dead talk to

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant,

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

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We often speak of love

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.

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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa)

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

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The system isn't stupid, but

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

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Permissiveness is the principle of

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

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The many faces of intimacy:

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

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The stupid neither forgive nor

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

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