Top 31 Norman O Brown Quotes
#1. 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 that unhappiness progress.
Norman O. Brown
#2. There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body
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#3. History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
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#5. Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.
Norman O. Brown
#6. My dad had previously spoken about 'fighting through things to get to the good stuff' or some such concept, and as he shook the salt water out of his curly brown hair, he talked more about people 'giving up and missing out on fantastic moments'.
Norman Ollestad
#7. Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.
Jessye Norman
#8. The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
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#11. Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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#12. 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 complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
Norman O. Brown
#13. The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.
Norman O. Brown
#14. 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 known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
#15. The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.
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#17. Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
#18. 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
#19. The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
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#21. The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie.
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#22. 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 complex, an attempt to find God in things.
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#26. One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize ... but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford ... Wouldn't you?
Norman Bridwell
#27. I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
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#29. For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.
Norman O. Brown
#30. To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
Norman O. Brown
#31. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
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