The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation..

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad..

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to b….

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and pl….

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men..

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man..

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and….

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings..

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone wh….

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... ….

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities..

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explai….

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more pre….

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than ….

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to li….

Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprisi….

When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me….

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? ….

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness….

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatev….

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..