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 knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love
The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.
The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.
Solo l'amore disinteressato è un sentimento maturo, completo.
Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.
Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.
Non esiste né bene né male se non c'è la libertà di disobbedire.
Man schließt zu zweit einen Bund gegen die Welt und hält dann diesen égoisme à deux irrtümlich für Liebe und Vertrautheit.
I knew that we counted little in comparison with the universe, I knew that we were nothing; but to be so immeasurably nothing seems in some way both to overwhelm and at the same time to reassure. Thos...
God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to labor for something and to make something grow,
Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.
Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We...
Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla...
As to the contents of the unconscious, no generalization is possible. But one statement can be made; it always represents the whole man, with all his potentialities for darkness and light; it always c...
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...
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...
ان اهم مجال للإعطاء ليس هو مجال الأشياء المادية, بل هو المجال الذي يكمن في العالم الانساني بصفة خاصة. فماذا يعطي الانسان للآخر ؟ انه يعطي من نفسه, من أثمن ما يملك, انه يعطي حياته. وليس هذا يعني بالضرو...