Conditions Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we are confronted…

— Erich Fromm

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

— Robert Musil

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural…

— Benjamin Hoff

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in…

— Joseph Campbell

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition…

— Lewis Mumford

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more…

— Robert Southey

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service…

— Erich Fromm

If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will…

— Rudolf Steiner

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health

— Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions…

— Thomas Merton

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But…

— Ralph Bunche