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

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

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.

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

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.

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