. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept. |
Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin. |
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. |
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. |
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. |
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. |
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. |
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. |
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. |
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. |
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. |