#he

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#authority #maximal #minimal #power #should

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #healing #illness #medicine #nothing

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#earlier #just #much #one day #other

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#get #here #i #like #lost

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#chance #consequence #ever #fact #happen

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#comparison #dream #get #him #i

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #claim #fuss #i #know

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#after #anyone #cloud #day #every