Norman O. Brown Quotes

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
• Love without attachment is light.
• To love is to transform; to be a poet.
• I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
• The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a…
• Meaning is not in things but in between them.
• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
• The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
• Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the…
• Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
• 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;…
• I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the…
• All currency is neurotic currency.
• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long…
• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
• Truth is error burned up.
• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious…
• History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

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