In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to….

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world..

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain..

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen..

The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But b….

Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible m….

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum..

I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to d….

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die..

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth..

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities..

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic..

Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is ….

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I mu….

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies..

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love..

Any experience of reality is indescribable!.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not..

One cannot say everything at once..

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

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark ….