“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
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“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
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“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”
― Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals 1934-1939
― Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals 1934-1939
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