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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.

Philosophy Does Not Exist. It Is Nothing But An Hypostatized Abstraction.

The Individual In The Ordinary Circumstances Of Living May Feel More Unreal Than Real; In A Literal Sense, More Dead Than Alive; Precariously Differentiated From The Rest Of The World, So That His Identity And Autonomy Are Always In Question.... He May Not Possess An Over-riding Sense Of Personal Consistency Or Cohesiveness. He May Feel More Insubstantial Than Substantial, And Unable To Assume That The Stuff He Is Made Of Is Genuine, Good, Valuable. And He May Feel His Self As Partially Divorced From His Body.

A Man Who Says That Men Are Machines May Be A Great Scientist. A Man Who Says He Is A Machine Is 'depersonalized' In Psychiatric Jargon.

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.