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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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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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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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Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

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Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's character...more

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since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they neces...more

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The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. Wh...more

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There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they...more

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What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status q...more

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If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in mak...more

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Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but t...more

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It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been c...more

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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection w...more

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Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being tha...more