When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ...… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values… — 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
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. — 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
