The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
Norman O. BrownThe human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
Norman O. BrownThere is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body
Norman O. BrownI'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. BrownI perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
Norman O. BrownResisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
Norman O. BrownUtopian 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.
Norman O. BrownTags: humanity dystopia utopia annalee-newitz
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