“Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.”
― Norman O. Brown
“The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of
external reality.”
― Norman O. Brown
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets
sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then
in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a
deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have
consequences.”
― Norman O. Brown
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung]
of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical
Meaning of History
Hold on, the last quote is not a quote by Norman O. Brown. It's a quote by Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations, Part 1, Section 109). Why on earth have you attributed it to Norman O. Brown?
ReplyDeleteYes I was puzzled about that, I thought sounds a bit like the famous Wittgenstein thinkige - I saw it in a list of Norman O. Brown quotes somewhere.
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