Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.