My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.
Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we...
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 conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fund...
Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.
Inasmuch as one cannot avoid bad company, one should not be deceived. One should see the insincerity behind the mask of friendliness, the destructiveness behind the mask of eternal complaints about un...
Ancak, tam anlamıyla kendisi olmaya doğru bir adım atmaya çalışan herkes, korkusuzluk yönünde yeni bir adım atıldığında, çok kesin bir güç ve sevinç duygusunun uyandığını bilir. Yeni bir yaşam evresin...
يحدث التغير في الوظيفة عندما يتوقف التملك عن كونه وسيلة للشعور بحيوية وإنتاجية أعظم, ويتحول إلى وسيلة للاستهلاك السلبي الحسي. عندما تكون وظيفة التملك الأساسية إرضاء حاجات الاستهلاك المتزايدة, فإنه (أي...
إن المعرفة بوجود الخراب والخداع والانانية واجبة, ليس فقط عندما تكون واضحة امامنا كالشمس, ولكن يجب علينا معرفتها حتى بأشكالها المختلفة المستترة ومبرراتها.
أما المرأه المُحبة حقاً , المرأة التي تشعر بسعادة أكبر في الأعطاء بدلاً من الأخذ , المنغرسة جداً في وجودها فيمكنها ان تكون اماً مُحبة عندما يكون الطفل في عملية الأنفصال ..
[Der Mensch] würde dem Wahnsinn verfallen, wenn er sich nicht aus diesem Gefängnis befreien könnte - wenn er nicht in irgendeiner Form seine Hände nach anderen Menschen ausstrecken und sich mit der We...
Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth—the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to ac...
Women have been so thoroughly oppressed that they have accepted unconsciously the role that the ruling sex, man, gave to them. They have even believed in male propaganda, which is very much the same a...
Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object becom...
Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: Ich liebe dich, muss ich auch sagen können: Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst.
We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call war.
This axiom of Aristotelian logic has so deeply imbued our habits of thought that it is felt to be natural and self-evident, while on the other hand the statement that X is A and not A seems to be nons...
The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice.
The person who is normal in terms of being well adapted is often less healthy than the neurotic person in terms of human values. Often he is well adapted only at the expense of having given up his sel...
The myth identifies the beginning of human history with an act of choice, but it puts all emphasis on the sinfulness of this first act of freedom and the suffering resulting from it. Man and woman liv...
The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.