Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud, Ellis, Dreiser,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“As our organized system perfects itself, there is less "open" environment. It is hard for a social animal to grow when there is not… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
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