To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

- Norman O. Brown

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

- Norman O. Brown

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy;…

- Norman O. Brown

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

- Norman O. Brown

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, …

- Norman O. Brown

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

- Norman O. Brown

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have lo…

- Norman O. Brown

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure;…

- Norman O. Brown

Love without attachment is light.

- Norman O. Brown