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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.
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Der Anpassungstheorie liegen folgende Annahmen zugrunde: 1. Jede Gesellschaft als soche ist normal; 2. seelisch krann ist, wer von dem von der Gesellschaft favorisierten Personlichkeitstyp abweicht; 3. das Gesundheitswesen im Bereich von Psychiatrie udn Psychotherapie verfolgt das Ziel, den einzelnen auf das Niveau des Durchschnittschmenschen zu bringen, unabhangig davon, ob dieser blind ist oder nicht blind.
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n lqDy@ lmrkzy@ hy fym dh kn lmtlk y`zz lf`ly@ wlHywy@ ld~ lfrd, 'm yshl lf`ly@ wy`zz lksl wlkhmwl wll ntjy@.
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lsh`wr hw lHl@ lnfsy@ fy Hl@ wjwdn ldhy nshGl fyh bl`lm lkhrjy bnHw `mly . w llsh`wr hw lkhbr@ lnfsy@ fy Hl@ wjwdn ldhy qT`n fyh kl lrwbT m` l`lm lkhrjy wlm n`d ntwkh~ l`ml 'w lnshT w lf`ly@ w nm ntfrG l'nfsn
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Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. It is clear that respect is possible only if I have achieved independence; if I can stand and walk without needing crutches, without
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Der Mensch sieht sich - zu allen Zeiten und in allen Kulturen - vor das Problem der Losung der einen und immer gleichen Frage gestellt: wie er sein Abgetrenntsein uberwinden, wie er zur Vereinigung gelangen, wie er sein eigenes einzelnes Leben transzendieren und das Einswerden erreichen kann.
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Erkenntnis] ist nur moglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.
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Selbst nach der Geburt unterscheidet sich das Kind kaum von dem, was es vor der Geburt war; es kann noch keinen Gegenstand erkennen, es ist sich seiner selbst und der Welt als etwas ausserhalb von ihm Liegendes noch nicht bewusst.
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Das Denken kann uns nur zur Erkenntnis fuhren, dass es selsbt uns die letzte Antwort nicht geben kann.
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Die Idee, dass man die Wahrheit auf dem Weg des Denkens finden konne, fuhrt nicht nur zum Dogma, sondern auch zur Wissenschaft.
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Solo existe certeza con respecto al pasado, y con respecto al futuro, la certeza de la muerte.
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If two people who have been strangers, as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down, and feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exhilarating, most exciting experiences in life. It is all the more wonderful and miraculous for persons who have been shut off, isolated, without love. This miracle of sudden intimacy is often facilitated if it is combined with, or initiated by, sexual attraction and con..
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Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness"." --
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It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one."
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society
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I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, "Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose,"
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looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.
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The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.
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The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.
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The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love
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The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love--is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.
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Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.
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Independence is not achieved simply by not obeying mother, father, state, and the like. Independence is not the same as disobedience. Independence is possible only if, and according to the degree to which, man actively grasps the world, is related to it, and thus becomes one with it. There is no independence and no freedom unless man arrives at the stage of complete inner activity and productivity.
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But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we can go, we need an object of total devotion, a focal point for all our strivings and the basis for all our effective - not only our proclaimed ..
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Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.
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The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one's whims and the insistence on arbitrariness.
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Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.
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An individual may be alone in a physical sense for many years and yet he may be related to ideas, values, or at least social patterns that give him a feeling of communion and "belonging." On the other hand, he may live among people and yet be overcome with an utter feeling of isolation, the outcome of which, if it transcends a certain limit, is the state of insanity which schizophrenic disturbances present."
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Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. He (or she) looks at people in a similar way. For the man an attractive girl -- and for the woman an attractive man -- are the prizes they are after. 'Attractive' usually means a nice ..
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freedom is not less endangered if attacked in the name of anti-Fascism than in that of outright Fascism.1 This truth has been so forcefully formulated by John Dewey that I express the thought in his words: "The serious threat to our democracy," he says, "is not the existence of foreign totalitarian states. It is the existence within our own personal attitudes and within our own institutions of conditions which have given a victory to extern..
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There is only one passion which satisfies man's need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, and this is love. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. It is an experience of sharing, of communion, which permits the full unfolding of one's own inner activity. The experience of..
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Where the individual feels free and responsible for his own fate, or among minorities striving for freedom and independence, humanistic religious experience develops. The history of religion gives ample evidence of this correlation between social structure and kinds of religious experience. Early Christianity was a religion of the poor and downtrodden; the history of religious sects fighting against authoritarian political pressure shows th..
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We are poor in spite of all our wealth because we have much, but we are little.' As a result, the average man feels insecure, lonely, depressed, and suffers from a lack of joy in the midst of plenty. Life does not make sense to him; he is dimly aware that the meaning of life cannot lie in being nothing but a 'consumer.' He could not stand the joylessness and meaninglessness of life were it not for the fact that the system offers him innumer..
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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.
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To love somebody is not just a strong feeling--it 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 that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?
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was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual; they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life.
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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 of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.
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L'amore non e un sentimento al quale ci si possa abbandonare senza aver raggiunto un alto livello di maturita.
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Non esiste ne bene ne male se non c'e la liberta di disobbedire.
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But man is not only made by history--history is made by man.
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The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.
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The passion for having must lead to never-ending class war. The pretense of the communists that their system will end class struggle by abolishing classes is fiction, for their system is based on the principle of unlimited consumption as the goal of living. As long as everybody wants to have more, there must be formations of classes, there must be class war, and in global terms, there must be international war. Greed and peace preclude each..
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Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.
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Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for."
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Paradoksal'no, no sposobnost' ostavat'sia naedine s soboi iavliaetsia usloviem sposobnosti liubit'
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