Norman O Brown Famous Quotes



"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness."

All currency is neurotic currency.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.


Norman O Brown Quotations






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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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What do you despise By this are you truly known.
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Bernadette Peters

"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth."
Hans Reichenbach

"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
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Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
John Ernst Steinbeck

"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second."
Helen Hunt Jackson

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar