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- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with…
- The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result…
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive…
- Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire…
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
- The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in…
- Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
- Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or…
- I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
- There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those…
- The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense…
- Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
- Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as…
- Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges…
- It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of…
- The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must…
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss…
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
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