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
common-sense liberty violence
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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.