Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

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.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

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.