Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality..

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions..

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie..

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction..

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we no….

The square root of nothing..

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to p….

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient..

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair..

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the so….

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible..

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death..

Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense….

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in exper….

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect ….

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession..

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal..

In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorie….

The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differe….

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment..

Life is a sexually transmitted disease..