“There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must mean the defeat of the other. No one can measure how much personal unhappiness and inner… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons. But just as Aristotle maintained, “One swallow does not make a spring,” we must understand that one or two or even a dozen unadmirable traits does not make an unadmirable person. Long ago Edmund Burke warned humanity about the danger of false generalization in… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.” — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can take place not only in mental but in moral power. The earth tragically today is full of people who remain fixated on a childish level… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active agents in this strenuous, challenging world. At the same time, we must not make a fetish out of our self-sufficiency. It is normal and wise for us to rely at moments upon the insights, the courage, and the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“How easily we accept the fact that this is a varied world, with many races, cultures, and mores. In America we rejoice in this diversity, this pluralism, which makes up the rich pattern of our national being. We should learn to accept this pluralism in ourselves, to rejoice in the truth that we human being consist of a variety of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against life! This deeply hidden inner anger may be the product of hurt pride or of real frustration in office, factory, clinic, or home. Whatever may… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that many of us unconsciously entertain the same feeling about our friends and the members of our family. For there is a curious ambivalence about the human soul: it can love and hate the same object at the same… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a falsehood about… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.” — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
