Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — 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… — 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
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I often ask, "What do you want to work at? If you have the chance. When you get out of school, college,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
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
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
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
“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
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
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
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel — Paul Goodman Copy Share
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
“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
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
![“These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy [non-neurotic] children." On the face of it, this remark is preposterous. What was always taken as a…” quote by Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/670/paul-goodman-7755_beat-generation_these-young-marrying-contemporaries-or-j_1042873.jpg)