“Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.” — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.” — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
