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...
An individual may be alone in a physical sense for many years and yet he may be related to ideas, values, or at least social patterns that give him a feeling of communion and belonging. On the other h...
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
انني أحب من جوهر وجودي .. واعيش الشخص الآخر في جوهر وجوده
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 ..
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary streng...
[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...
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...
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.
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 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.
Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
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...
ان مشكلة معرفة الانسان مماثلة للمشكلة الدينية الخاصة بمعرفة الله. في اللاهوت الغربي التقليدي تبذل المحاولة لمعرفة الله بالفكر, والادلاء بعبارات عن الله. ان هذا اللاهوت يفترض انني استطيع ان اعرف الله ف...
إن الأمر بحاجة إلى بحث عميق وتحليل دقيق لكى ننفذ إلى الحقيقة ونحكم على أنفسنا حكما أقرب إلى الصواب.
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...