Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. |
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. |
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. |
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. |
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. |
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. |
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. |
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. |
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. |
There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. |
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy |
We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. |
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. |
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. |
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. |