The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
Love is a power which produces love.
If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance....
If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big b...
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 it.
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge t...
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does th...
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital, had a deep psychological effect... Nazism resurrected the...
The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if...
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering o...