Occupation: Author Birth: 1925
All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relativ….
Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculous….
Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' ev….
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory..
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meaning….
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and e….
When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of h….
In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in ….
Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corolla….
Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom….
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry ab….
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a grea….
We are what we seem to be..
I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to..
We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival..
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is..
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can no….
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal percepti….
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival..
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-….