“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
"Emotions", p. 36.
The Second Sin (1973)
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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012Related quotes
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s
Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 230.
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96
“Adults should strive to be more like children.”
Speaking at Women's march in Los Angeles (21 January 2017).
