Quotes by Norman O. Brown

Norman O. Brown

All currency is neurotic currency.

Currency

Neurotic

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Common Sense

Freedom

Liberty

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Commemoration

History

Stage

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Mines

Personality

Property

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 obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things – things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

Deeds

Impossible Things

Pay The Price

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.

Essence

Long

Science

Love without attachment is light.

Attachment

Light

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.

Ideas

Progress

Unhappy

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Progress

Psychology

Society

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Ambition

Attachment

Body

Capitalism

Commemoration

Common Sense

Currency

Deeds

Dynamics

Ego

Enjoyment

Errors

Essence

Exercise

Fashion

Freedom

Ghost

Guests

Health

Heirs

History

Humanity

Ideas

Impossible Things

Insane

Liberty

Light

Long

Love

Love Is

Mad

Mines

Money

Neurotic

Pay The Price

Personality

Poet

Prejudice

Progress

Property

Psychology

Reality

Religious

Remembered

Resisting

Science

Self

Self Destruction

Society

Stage

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Quotes by Norman O. Brown

Norman O. Brown

All currency is neurotic currency.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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.

Love without attachment is light.

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.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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