Joe Dangelo

“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

“Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.”
― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie.”
― Norman O. Brown