Quotes by : Paul Goodman

The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is....

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves....

The family is the American fascism.

Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence....

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old,....

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of....

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected.....