The alienated person looks at himself as he would look at an outsider: I have an image of myself. I don’t have to stress here whether our image is […]

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not […]

There is a different concept of knowledge when applied to knowing a person, by contrast to knowledge as used in the natural sciences. We are dealing here with the […]

The experience is really there only, just a moment before you say the word. Once the word is said, it’s already over there. But, at the same time, of […]

Sometimes ethics refers only to behavior; then what is meant by it is a code – a code of a certain desirable behavior. Then, of course, you can divide […]

Sometimes you can recognize a fanatic just by the peculiar glitter in his eyes, or by the distortion of his face by the repetitiveness and sterility of his argument, […]

Freedom is not so much a fact but a possibility: the authentic achievement of the human person. Freedom must be gained specifically against the obstacles and the conditions to […]

Joy is the concomitant of productive activity. It is not a „peak experience,“ which culminates and ends suddenly, but rather a plateau, a feeling state that accompanies the productive […]

In order to have peace man must first find at-onement; peace is the result of a change within man in which union has replaced alienation. Thus the idea of […]

The boundary between awareness of feeling and expression of feeling in words is very fluid. (…) The feeling may be still more closely related to the word, but as […]