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.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
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.
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...
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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 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...
Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.
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.
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.)
Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being,...
Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part...
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
A society whose members are helpless need idols.
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves...