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Wilhelm Reich on Valentine's Day

1897–1957 Austria

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

The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

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...

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm Reich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.