Thomas Szasz Quote

Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be able to control them better, whereas in moral science it is, or ought to be, to be better able to leave them alone. The morally proper aim of psychology, then, is self-control.


"Science and Scientism", p. 115. - The Second Sin (1973)


Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be...

Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be...

Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be...

Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be...