Beauty Is Almost No Longer Possible If

Children Are Not Yet Fools, But We Shall Turn Them Into Imbeciles Like Ourselves, With High I.q.'s If Possible.

In A World Full Of Danger, To Be A Potentially Seeable Object Is To Be Constantly Exposed To Danger. Self-consciousness, Then, May Be The Apprehensive Awareness Of Oneself As Potentially Exposed To Danger By The Simple Fact Of Being Visible To Others. The Obvious Defence Against Such A Danger Is To Make Oneself Invisible In One Way Or Another.

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.

We Are Born Into A World Where Alienation Awaits Us. We Are Potentially Men, But Are In An Alienated State, And This State Is Not Simply A Natural System. Alienation As Our Present Destiny Is Achieved Only By Outrageous Violence Perpetrated By Human Beings On Human Beings.

The Schizophrenic May Indeed Be Mad. He Is Mad. He Is Not Ill. I Have Been Told By People Who Have Been Through The Mad Experience How What Was Then Revealed To Them Was Veritable Manna From Heaven. The Person's Whole Life May Be Changed, But It Is Difficult Not To Doubt The Validity Of Such Vision. Also, Not Everyone Comes Back To Us Again.