Norman O. Brown Quotes

• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Norman O. Brown

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• I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

  Norman O. Brown

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• Love without attachment is light.

  Norman O. Brown

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• All currency is neurotic currency.

  Norman O. Brown

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

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• The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

  Norman O. Brown

  Tags in Dynamics, Postponed

• The view only changes for the lead dog.

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Norman O. Brown (8)

Birth:	25th September, 1913
Death:	2nd October, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher

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