“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.” WorldPersonsExpressionMaterialsBecomingHealthyNormalIdealsClaimsCommittedDoctrineRealmsInstantSaneSophisticatedStimulusAdjustmentHallucinationsMaterial WorldExtrovertsPsychopathology Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.” KnowsWayReasonWantedBrainBoysFantasyBecomingNormalOpeningCorpsesSkullsAssistantsOpening UpNeurosurgeons Author:Joseph Brodsky
“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."” IfsSeemsEnergyChildhoodBecomingNormalOur ChildrenDown AndStriveInevitableAnxiousHierarchyBecoming More Author:Gloria Steinem
“When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentHappensLife IsSocialStarsWalksRoomsBecomingNormalPopsEngagementAwkwardReally CoolPop Stars Author:Matthew Healy
“It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.” Would BeRunningMy OwnFantasyRiskDangerousBecomingNormalBehaveRight ThingTrappedDoing The Right Thing Book:The Reader Source: The Reader
“Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.” WorldWayWantDifferentGodChristianChangeAcceptingChristianityLordTroubleThis WorldAcceptanceBecomingHolyNormalPatternsCreatorChristian InspirationalKingdomsAgentsUncertaintyChanging The WorldDimensionsMeant To BeStatus QuoKingdom Of GodInsistingTroublemakerAccepting RealityImperfect World Author:Jacques Ellul
“Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.” Life IsBecomingNormalCycles Author:Young-Ha Kim