"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is."
-Thomas Szasz
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.“
-Thomas Szasz
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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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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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
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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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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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