Wilhelm Reich Quotes



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“Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. 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.”

“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 is the absence of anxiety.”

“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.”

“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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