Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by letting things be (to use Heide...
When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open....
Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and...
Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.
الحب الاخوي هو حب بين اثنين متساويين, ولكن حتى لو كنا متساوين حقا فاننا لسنا متساوين دائما, وذلك بقدر ما نحن بشر فاننا جميعا محتاجون الى المساعدة. اليوم أنا وغدا أنت. لكن هذه الحاجة الى المساعدة لا تع...
يهم أن نعرف أيَّ نوعٍ من الوحدة نتحدث عنه عندما نتحدث عن الحب: هل نشير إلى الحب كحلٍّ ناضج لمشكلة الوجود؟ أم أننا نتكلم عن تلك الأشكال غير الناضجة للحب التي يمكن أن تُسمى وحدة تكافلية؟
فالسمة الأساسية للطبيعة الإنسانية هي مقدرتها على معرفة ذاتها ومعرفة ما ليس منها، أو ما هو مختلف عنها. وما أن يعي الإنسان هذه الحقيقة حتى نعزل عن الطبيعة وبقية الكائنات، وهذا الإنعزال أو الإنفصال إذا ن...
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...
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...
Die Entwicklung der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft geht Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung des Privateigentums
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...
Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by h...
Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a m...
In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validatio...
It is the thesis of this book that modern man, freed from the bonds of pre-individualistic society, which simultaneously gave him security and limited him, has not gained freedom in the positive sense...
It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.
La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.
Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 'centr...
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