If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be—who am I?
For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.
Life has ceased to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and the same time threatening. By losing his fixed place in a closed world man loses the answe...
В детстве каждый человек проходит стадию слабости, а истина - это сильнейшее оружие тех, у кого нет силы. Но истина нужна человеку не только для того, чтобы ориентироваться во внешнем мире; его собств...
To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.
The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily..
The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.
Significant changes in the psychological atmosphere accompanied the economic development of capitalism. A spirit of restlessness began to pervade life toward the end of the Middle Ages. The concept of...
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. [...] Attractive usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on th...
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being asocial or irrational in their eyes, so...
Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share t...
Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and th...
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one ob...
To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved. Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love. Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I ne...
If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.
A third way of attaining union lies in creative activity, be it that of the artist, or of the artisan. In any kind of creative work the creating person unites himself with his material, which represen...