Occupation: Psychoanalyst Birth: March 24, 1897 Death: November 3, 1957
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True e….
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armo….
MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are inco….
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin..
You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure….
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness..
Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs..
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking..
Love is the absence of Anxiety..
I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be reli….
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in s….
Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology.
You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The ….
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and….
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at tim….
Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each othe….
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it..
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life..
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a ….
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern..
Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when lif….