“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