The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
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....
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
Love is a power which produces love.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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...
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.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
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...
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...
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are...
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
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...
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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...
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