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Reich Wilhelm

1897 - 1957 (60)

Reich Wilhelm
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Quote 1

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.

Quote 2

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

Quote 3

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Quote 4

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

Quote 5

I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure.