Accepting Quote by Paul Robeson

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine…

— Erich Fromm

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead…

— Fritjof Capra

“Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list…

— Christopher Dines

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

— Anonymous

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity,…

— Erich fromm

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow man, and,…

— Erich Fromm

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself…

— Meister Eckhart