“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.” HumansSelfMomentsRealityBearsDemandNormalEssenceFunctionSimplicityWitnessEvidentHostileFringeBrutalityReverieHuman Psyche Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.” MindDifferencesMankindNormalIntellectualFunctionImportanceRegardMajorityOptimisticPessimistic Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance) Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.” PeopleAgeUsedDegreesNormalFunctionExpectedRhythmUniformityDefectivePacing Author:Anne Finger
“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.” IfsWorldTryingFirstsTwoProblemThreeCommunityDealsGenerationsGroupsModernNormalFunctionOrganizedFadesDiminishWorld ProblemsThree GenerationsNormal Family Author:Ralph Borsodi
“Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.” LooksMayI CanStupidNormalFunction Author:Daniel Tosh
“I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.” ThinkingMenWritingAnimalPositionNormalFunctionTeethBathroomBrushingNormal Things Author:Rod Serling
“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)” ThinkingMenShouldBelieveIdeasRememberI BelieveNormalCapableDoctorsUniversalFunctionAncientEvery ManTreasureFulfillmentOccasionalGlorifyBarbarismAmazementBorgesRespiration Author:Jorge Luis Borges