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- The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
- Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
- 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…
- Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and…
- I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the…
- The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into…
- 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…
- When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
- 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…
- The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something…
- Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling…
- We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we…
- Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can…
- Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in…
- Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the…
- I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside…
- Love is not something your heart falls into, but something that picks it up and sets it soaring.
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