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

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

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

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

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