The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one’s fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one’s hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that...
Primary bonds once severed cannot be mended; once paradise is lost, man cannot return to it. There is only one possible, productive solution for the relationship of individualized man with the world:...
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.
People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvationbut they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that...
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...
One can only understand the power of the fear to be different, the fear to be only a few steps away from the herd, if one understands the depths of the need not to be separated.
Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.
Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of , rather than that of , of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they...
Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill
Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.
I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, Who doesn’t become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose,
Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either have or have not. In fact, there is no such thing as freedom except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the of freeing ou...
Equality today means sameness rather than oneness.
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the conn...
Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla...
But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking...
Auf ihrer Suche nach der Einheit hinter der Mannigfaltigkeit kamen die brahmanischen Denker zu dem Schluss, dass das von ihnen wahrgenommene Gegensatzpaar nicht das Wesen der Dinge, sondern das Wesen...
Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into so...
ليس هناك سوى شكل واحد من الاقتراب ﻻ يمنع تطور الفرد, وﻻ يسبب تلك الاحتكاكات أو النقص في الطاقة - إنه الحب الراشد. وأعني بذلك العﻻقة الحميمة التامة بين شخصين, يحتفظ كل شخص فيها باستقﻻله التام ويبقى منف...