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

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.

Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.