Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope. — 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 unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling… — 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
