The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that… — 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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