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Love is the absence of Anxiety.
Only you yourself can be your liberator!
Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.
It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?
Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.
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.
Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.
Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.
The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.
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 reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.
Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
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 your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.
The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.
Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.