Norman Oliver Brown (1913–2002) was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar, his later work branched into wide-ranging, erudite, and intellectually sophisticated considerations of history, literature, psychology, culture, and other topics. Brown advanced some novel theses and in his time achieved some general notability.
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All currency is neurotic currency.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Money
Love without attachment is light.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Love
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, an attempt to find God in things.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Money
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: History
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; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Man, Body, Mankind
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known—that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Money
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Violence, Freedom
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Enjoyment, Capitalism
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
—Norman O. Brown
Topics: Property, Personality
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