The experience of separateness arouses anxiety;
Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
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...
Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word, let us say, if I say I love you, the word is meant to be an indication of the r...
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is a...
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.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
لعل من الطريف فى هذا الصدد أن نذكر هنا أن أحد المؤرخين الثقاة يؤكد لنا أنه فيما بين عام 1500 و 1860 بعد الميلاد وقعت الدول ما ينيف عن ثمانية آلاف معاهدة للصلح، تهدف كل منها إلى سيادة السلام الدائم بين...
لشعور هو الحالة النفسية في حالة وجودنا الذي نشغل فيه بالعالم الخارجي بنحو عملي . و اللاشعور هو الخبرة النفسية في حالة وجودنا الذي قطعنا فيه كل الروابط مع العالم الخارجي ولم نعد نتوخى العمل أو النشاط و...
انني أحب من جوهر وجودي .. واعيش الشخص الآخر في جوهر وجوده
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 القضية المركزية هي فيما إذا كان الامتلاك يعزز الفعالية والحيوية لدى الفرد, أم يشل الفعالية ويعزز الكسل والخمول واللا إنتاجية.
إن الأمر بحاجة إلى بحث عميق وتحليل دقيق لكى ننفذ إلى الحقيقة ونحكم على أنفسنا حكما أقرب إلى الصواب.
Парадоксально, но способность оставаться наедине с собой является условием способности любить
The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not...
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...
Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a...
We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of es...