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> [Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/paranoia-reduces-anxiety-and-guilt-by-transferring-to-the-other-all/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

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> [As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/as-a-mode-of-perception-that-often-becomes-a-style-of-life-paranoia/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

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> [Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/consensual-paranoia-the-pathology-of-the-normal-person-who-is-a/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

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## Other authors on Paranoia

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-s-burroughs-95860.jpg) William S. Burroughs 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paranoia/william-s-burroughs/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hunter-s-thompson-42712.jpg) Hunter S. Thompson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paranoia/hunter-s-thompson/)

## More by Sam Keen

> [Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/wise-people-are-able-to-give-themselves-gracefully-to-seemingly/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/to-sustain-love-a-man-and-a-woman-must-continually-be-marrying-and/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/mystical-experiences-unlike-scientific-conclusions-cannot-be/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/in-a-way-human-beings-have-never-been-part-of-the-natural-order-we-re/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/to-be-on-a-quest-is-nothing-more-or-less-than-to-become-an-asker-of/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/there-is-the-extreme-of-hopelessness-and-the-inevitability-of-doom-a/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/chronological-time-is-what-we-measure-by-clocks-and-calendars-it-is/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/human-beings-are-what-i-think-of-as-biomythic-animals-we-re/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/if-we-come-from-good-families-where-we-have-been-supported-well-there/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/to-a-large-extent-the-aged-in-our-society-are-ghettoized-old-people/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/call-it-womb-awe-or-even-womb-worship-but-it-s-not-simple-envy-i-don/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/mounting-an-expedition-to-actualize-a-compassionate-commonwealth-of/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/the-root-of-humanly-caused-evil-is-not-man-s-animal-nature-not/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/if-some-incarnation-of-evil-as-unambiguous-as-hitler-appeared-again-i/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

> [“A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values worth defending,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/a-man-who-does-not-know-how-to-wage-a-just-battle-first-with-himself/)

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