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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinari...more

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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

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We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more re...more

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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opin...more

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I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one’s love life and has to become rigid and...more

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How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your soci...more

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I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

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It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not det...more

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It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shi...more

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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 ...more

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Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse,...more

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Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your wife's dream of love, ...more

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Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the in...more

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Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The ...more

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The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexua...more