إن القضية المركزية هي فيما إذا كان الامتلاك يعزز الفعالية والحيوية لدى الفرد, أم يشل الفعالية ويعزز الكسل والخمول واللا إنتاجية.
Уже на ранней стадии воспитания ребенка учат проявлять чувства, которые вовсе не являются его чувствами. Его учат любить людей(обязательно всех), учат быть некритично дружелюбным, улыбаться и т. д. Ес...
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...
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...
While everybody tries to be as close as possible to the rest, everybody remains utterly alone, pervaded by the deep sense of insecurity, anxiety and guilt which always results when human separateness...
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...
We are poor in spite of all our wealth because we have much, but we are little.' As a result, the average man feels insecure, lonely, depressed, and suffers from a lack of joy in the midst of plenty....
Vernunft ist die Fähigkeit, objektiv zu denken. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Haltung ist die Demut.
Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.
To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The passion for having must lead to never-ending class war. The pretense of the communists that their system will end class struggle by abolishing classes is fiction, for their system is based on the...
The need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.
The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love—is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.
Senza amore, l'umanità non sopravvivrebbe un solo giorno.
Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak hasbeen reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has notgrown.
One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critica...
Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—...