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Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
The square root of nothing.
Few books today are forgivable.
One cannot say everything at once.
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.
Any experience of reality is indescribable!
The way out is through the door you came in.
I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.
No one has the answer: we are answer and question.
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.
Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
