Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
We are what we do.
The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.
گرانبهاترین سرمایه انسان و محکمترین پایه قدرت او چیزی جز شخصیت او نیست
ماذا يعني أن يقوم شخص ما بتكييف حياته بشكل كامل باتجاه التملك؟كائنا من يكون ذلك الذي يقوم بتوجيه حياته إلى التمل, فهو يحسم مسألة ماهيته وماهية وجوده ومعنى حياته وأسلوبه في الحياة بناء على مايملكه, وما...
كلما ضعفت ذات المرء تتعاظم خشيته من فقدانها أثناء التركيز على ماهو ليس ذاته.
Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot...
We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what he thinks and says are the things that...
The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time...
The capacity to see and—equally so—blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerne...
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one did, and the innumerable daily things that seem...
People do not see that the main question is not : Am I loved? which is to a large extent the question : Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired? The main question is: Can I love?
One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they...
Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness
Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.
I think that the word does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that i...
Ao relacionar-se com o mundo objetivo, por intermédio de suas faculdades, o mundo exterior torna-se real para o homem, e de fato é só o amor que faz o homem verdadeiramente crer na realidade do mundo...
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in so...
كلما تعاظم الشعور بالعجز وبنقص الإرادة الأصيل, كلما تنامى الخضوع أو الرغبة المهووسةبإرضاء نزوة المرء والإصرار على الاختيا.