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

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

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

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.