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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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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

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

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To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afrai...more

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What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek an...more

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A society whose members are helpless need idols.

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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 admi...more

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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 at the same time threatening. By losing ...more

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What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek an...more