The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.