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A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "fo...more

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The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, tec...more

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The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgment of the validity of t...more

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In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-alm...more

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The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

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The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

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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...more

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardiz...more

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

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Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of t...more

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The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the ...more

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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's...more

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To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

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the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frus...more