Quotes by Paul Goodman

“Few great men could pass personnel. ”

“Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.”

“The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.”

“Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old, towards their activities, and into (or against) their institutions; and the old foster, teach, t...”

“Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solem...”

“The classical anthropological question, What is man?"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropolog...”

“Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning is there...”

“Positively, the delinquent behavior seems to speak clearly enough. It asks for what we cant give, but it is in this direction we must go. It asks for manly opportunities to work, make a little mone...”

“My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and hi...”

“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, w...”

“These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy...”

“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.”

“Few great men could pass Personnel.”

“It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.”

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

“The family is the American fascism.”

“I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plai...”

“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropol...”

“It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.”

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