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

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

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.

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.

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

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.