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> [Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/freud-pointed-out-in-his-problem-of-lay-analysis-that-it-is-extremely/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

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## More by Paul Goodman

> [Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/enjoyment-is-not-a-goal-it-is-a-feeling-that-accompanies-important/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/when-there-is-official-censorship-it-is-a-sign-that-speech-is-serious/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/freud-pointed-out-in-his-problem-of-lay-analysis-that-it-is-extremely/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/it-is-by-losing-himself-in-the-objective-in-inquiry-creation-and/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [ “The Sexual plight of these children \[those adolescents experimenting sexually\] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud, Ellis, Dreiser,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/the-sexual-plight-of-these-children-those-adolescents-experimenting/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [All men are creative but few are artists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/all-men-are-creative-but-few-are-artists/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/thwarted-or-starved-in-the-important-objects-proper-to-young/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/we-do-not-need-to-be-able-to-say-what-human-nature-is-in-order-to-be/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/not-to-teach-the-whole-curriculum-is-to-give-up-on-the-whole-man/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/an-obstacle-is-something-you-see-when-you-take-your-eyes-off-the-goal/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/the-stultifying-effect-of-the-movies-is-not-that-the-children-see/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [“As our organized system perfects itself, there is less "open" environment. It is hard for a social animal to grow when there is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/as-our-organized-system-perfects-itself-there-is-less-open/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/the-ancient-dream-of-man-to-fly-among-the-stars-and-go-through-the/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/when-the-sciences-are-supreme-average-people-lose-their-feeling-of/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

> [We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goodman/we-define-boredom-as-the-pain-a-person-feels-when-he-s-doing-nothing/)

[Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goodman/)

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