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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look… — Carl Rogers
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. — Carl Rogers
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed… — Carl Rogers
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… — Erich Fromm
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each… — Viktor E. Frankl
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering — Viktor E. Frankl
Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of… — Olavo de Carvalho
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and… — William James
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,… — William James
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to… — Jacques Barzun
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to… — Will Durant
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and… — Viola Spolin
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois… — Max Horkheimer
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify… — Herbert Marcuse
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital… — Karl Marx
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be… — Karl Marx
As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they… — Karl Marx
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment… — Hannah Arendt
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly… — Hannah Arendt
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt

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