41 Quotes by Norman O. Brown

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.

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

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

To be is to be vulnerable.

All currency is neurotic currency.

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.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

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