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One Quotes by Alexander Lowen
- Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic…
- The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in…
- Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to…
- As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about…
- It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which…
- No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
- Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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