Quotes About Authenticity

Modern man is starved for life.

We have reached a state of individuation in which only the fully developed mature personality can make fruitful use of freedom; if the individual has not developed his reason and his capacity for love, he is incapable of bearing the burden of freedom and individuality, and tries to escape into artificial ties which give him a sense of belonging and rootedness.

modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El amor inmaduro dice: "te amo porque te necesito". El maduro dice: "te necesito porque te amo" (Erich Fromm)

Das 'falsche Bewusstsein', das heißt ein entstelltes Bild der Wirklichkeit, schwächt den Menschen. Mit der Wirklichkeit in Kontakt zu kommen, sich ein richtiges Bild von ihr zu machen, stärkt ihn.

Sadista usiluje o moc nad ?lovÄ›kem právÄ› proto, že nemá moc skute?nÄ› prožívat sv?j život, být.

man's spontaneous activity. It is the security acquired each moment by man's spontaneous activity. It is the security that only freedom can give, that needs no illusions because it has eliminated those conditions that necessitate illusions.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

She was very beautiful and he felt he loved her. She was not beautiful as a state or a picture is beautiful; she was beautiful as a meadow across which the wind blows. It was life that pulsed in her and that had formed her into what she was.

I hate it when people mix things, I hate the cowlike yearning toward one another while the beauty and the power of a great work breaks over one; I hate the swimming looks of lovers, the foolish blissful cuddling, the indecent sheepish happiness that can never rise above itself; I hate all the talk of becoming one through love;

How beautiful it is when one lives completely and not with just a part of oneself. When one is full to the rim and calm because there is nothing more to get in.

Nachts ist man das, was man eigentlich sein soll; nicht das, was man geworden ist.

That's how we are! Afraid of our feelings. And when we become aware of them we immediately think we are swindlers.

Hard... What does he mean by hard? And am I like that? Or is it only that I have no time for the fraud of so-called good manners, which strews a little glitter over black truths, and thinks that that has made them disappear.

Tu netr?ci. Dz?v?ba tev? tr?c. Tam nav nek?da sakara ar drosmi. Drosme cilv?kam ir tad, kad tas var pretoties. Viss p?r?jais ir dižošan?s. M?su dz?v?ba ir sapr?t?g?ka nek? m?s paši.

Nobody can deceive a dying farmer!

Wir haben den Sinn für andere Zusammenhänge verloren, weil sie künstlich sind. Nur die Tatsachen sind richtig und wichtig für uns.

The fellows who write those lies ought to go out and hang themselves.

Un br?žiem, kad klusums br?c, tas j?p?rm?c ar visska??ko, kas cilv?kam ir.

Re nu, k?di m?s esam! Baid?mies savu j?tu. Un, tikl?dz t?s saman?m, t? t?l?t dom?jam, ka esam kr?pnieki.

Sve je krivo što govorim, postaje krivo dok govorim. Re?i su lažne i sentimentalne i ne izri?u pravi smisao i pretvaraju se u noževe, a ja te ne želim povrediti, ali svaka re? mora biti povreda ako ho?u da sam iskrena. A sve i kada verujem da sam iskrena, ja to ipak nisam.

Facts are better than dreams.

However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.