All Norman O. Brown Quotes
- Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. Breaking
- Love without attachment is light. Attachment
- To love is to transform; to be a poet. Inspirational
- I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. Inspirational
- The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. Capitalism
- 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… Body
- Meaning is not in things but in between them. Funny
- The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation. Body
- The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality. External
- Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the… Affirming
- Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. Inspirational
- 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;… Any
- 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… Able
- All currency is neurotic currency. All
- 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… Absolute
- To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead. Ambition
- Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. History
- Truth is error burned up. Burned
- 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… Ape
- History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. Commemoration
- The view only changes for the lead dog. Changes