A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and thus demonstrate the law of tension and charge in its purest form - as does the orgastic convulsion. Now money is a must - cancer the main issue - in… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share
“All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.” — wilhelm reich Copy Share Image
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psychological interpretation, to attribute to it a psychic meaning as if it were a neurotic symptom. But this is what the psychoanalysts did. On the contrary: any idea occurring in the course of the sexual act only has the effect of hindering… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your wife's dream of love, your own dream of life when you were sixteen. Exchange your illusions for a bit of truth. Throw out your politicians and diplomats! Take your destiny into your own hands and build… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share
