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| 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 be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad. |
| Children; Education; Madness |
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| Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. |
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| Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. |
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| Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. |
| Creativity; Exploration; Risk-taking |
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| From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. |
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| 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. |
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| In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. |
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| Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. |
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| It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course. |
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| Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. |
| Life |
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| 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. |
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| Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. |
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| Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. |
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| Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. |
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| 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 our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. |
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| The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. |
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| The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. |
| Failure |
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| 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. |
| Pain |
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| There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. |
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| We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy |
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