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...
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experienc...
Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to b...
Die Idee, dass man die Wahrheit auf dem Weg des Denkens finden könne, führt nicht nur zum Dogma, sondern auch zur Wissenschaft.
At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
Amore fraterno. La forma più fondamentale d'amore, è l'amore fraterno.Con questo intendo senso di responsabilità, premure, rispetto, comprensione per il prossimo; esso è caratterizzato dall'assenza di...
A man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or greed for money. In all these cases the person is the slave of a passion, and his act...
لقد أصبح الكلام إدمانا: انا اتكلم إذا أنا موجود, أنا اتكلم إذا أنا لست نكرة, أنا أتكلم إذا لدي ماض, وعمل, وأسرة, وبحديثي عن كل ماسبق فإني أؤكد على ذاتي.
حب جسد الأنسان ليس تحققاً او انجازاً .. فالحيوانات تحب صغارها وتُعنى بها .. والشخص العاجز يحب سيده حيث ان حياته تتوقف عليه .. ان الطفل يحب والديه حيث انه يحتاج اليهما .. وفي حب اولئك الذين لايفيدون في...
تعتمد قوة موقع الإنسان في الحياة على درجة كفاءة إدراكه للواقع, وكلما نقصت كفائته يزداد تشوشه وبالتالي يتنامى شعوره بعدم الأمان, فيصبح بحاجة إلى أوهام يتكئ عليها ليجد الامان الذي ينشده. وكلما ازدادت كف...
إننا لا ننكر أن الإنسانية وسط هذا الضجيج والعجيج لا تعدم نفراً من العقلاء بنادون بعقد معاهدات الصلح ونشر ألوية السلام فى ربوع العالم بأسره. غير أن قصارى ما يبذله هؤلاء العقلاء من جهد لا يعدو أن يكون ك...
Наиболее важная сфера давания это однако не сфера материальных вещей, а специфически человеческая сфера. Что один человек может дать другому. Он дает себя, самое драгоценное из того, что имеет, он дае...
You do many things at once; you read, listen to the radio, talk, smoke, eat, drink. You are the consumer with the open mouth, eager and ready to swallow everything—pictures, liquor, knowledge. This la...
Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate...
In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.
If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then yo...
I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If
Faith in life, in oneself, in others must be built on the hard rock of realism; that is to say, on the capacity to see evil where it is, to see swindle, destructiveness, and selfishness not only when...
Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an a...