Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function which makes it not very different from alcoholism and drug addiction. It...
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to b...
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety;
Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that...
Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich über das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlässt...
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
No man must be the means for the ends of another man.
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassuranc...
A free person owes an explanation only to himself, to his reason and his conscious, and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an , not the problem of a . People think that to is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.
If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This re...
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of pe...
One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to.
Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement. (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)
We are what we do.