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title: "1 Love Transform Quotes By Norman O. Brown"
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> [To love is to transform; to be a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/to-love-is-to-transform-to-be-a-poet/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

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## More by Norman O. Brown

> [Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/whoever-expects-to-walk-peacefully-in-the-world-must-be-money-s-guest/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/i-ve-been-impressed-by-the-extent-to-which-one-gets-sentenced-by-one/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Truth is error burned up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/truth-is-error-burned-up/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Love without attachment is light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/love-without-attachment-is-light/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/psychoanalysis-can-provide-a-theory-of-progress-but-only-by-viewing/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [The view only changes for the lead dog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/the-view-only-changes-for-the-lead-dog/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [To be is to be vulnerable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/to-be-is-to-be-vulnerable/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [“The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/the-human-libido-is-essentially-narcissistic-but-it-seeks-a-world-to/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/history-is-the-enactment-of-ritual-on-a-permanent-and-universal-stage/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [All currency is neurotic currency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/all-currency-is-neurotic-currency/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/freedom-is-poetry-taking-liberties-with-words-breaking-the-rules-of/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/utopian-speculations-must-come-back-into-fashion-they-are-a-way-of/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/mankind-today-is-still-making-history-without-having-any-conscious/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/i-perceive-a-necessary-gap-between-seeing-and-being-i-would-not-be/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

> [To love is to transform; to be a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-o-brown/to-love-is-to-transform-to-be-a-poet/)

[Norman O. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-o-brown/)

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