41 Quotes by Norman O. Brown

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Truth is error burned up.