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..

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense..

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents..

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal..

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without….

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these ….

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable..

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them i….

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly va….

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not..

A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actua….

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning..

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise….

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destruc….

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal….

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,….

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then ….

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can b….

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it s….