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It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

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Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

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It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.

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

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The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.

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

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The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

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Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

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Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

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The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality — both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

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In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

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The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

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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.

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It is not beyond actual possibilities that men from outer space have landed (or will in the future land) on earth and have begun to breed here for whatever reason they may have had.

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You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of "socialism," or "the state," or "national honor," or "the glory of God."

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We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

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If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

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