The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.
Love is the problem of an animal.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it. . . All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.
When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.