Norman O. Brown
Norman O. Brown
Norman Oliver Brownwas an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar, his later work branched into wide-ranging, erudite, and intellectually sophisticated considerations of history, literature, psychology, culture, and other topics. Brown advanced some novel theses and in his time achieved some general notability...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth25 September 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Norman O. Brown quotes about
personality originals property
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
common-sense liberty violence
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
ambition ghost remembered
To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
pay-the-price impossible-things deeds
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
dynamics enjoyment capitalism
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
currency neurotic
All currency is neurotic currency.
guests world walks
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.
psychology society progress
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.