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16 quotes
Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)
“The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
"There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left."
on Resilience
"The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
on Wisdom
"The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism."
on Politics
"The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget."
"If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia."
on Faith
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
on Life
"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
on Education
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."
on Power
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
"He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense."
on Empathy
"Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer."
on Mental Health
"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."
on Identity
