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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.”

Wilhelm Reich

Source: Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology

Life , People , Communication

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

Wilhelm Reich

As quoted in Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005) by James Lee Christian, p. 556

God , People , Fear

“I had directed drawpipes, connected with the deep well, toward an ordinary star, and the start had faded out four times. There was no mistake about it. Three more people had seen it. There was only one conclusion: The thing we had drawn from was not a star. It was something else; a UFO.”

Wilhelm Reich

Contact with Space (1957)

People , Star , Time

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

Wilhelm Reich

Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf [The Sexual Revolution] (1936)

Feeling , Thinking

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger. In this case, the destruction or killing of the object is the biologically purposeful goal. The original motive is not pleasure in destruction. Rather the destruction serves the "life instinct"…and is an attempt to avoid anxiety and to preserve the ego in its totality. I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live…”

Wilhelm Reich

Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique

Life , Pleasure , Motivation

“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.”

Wilhelm Reich

Contact with Space (1957)

Men , Future

“Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.”

Wilhelm Reich

Orgonotic Pulsation in International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, (March, 1944); Reich throughout his writings seems to use the word "mysticism" in a sense strongly related to claims of "mystical authority over others" and on the impositions made by such faith, rather than in its more common use as a word denoting a respect for "mystical insight apart from others" without necessarily any claim to authority over them.

Nature , Science

“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.”

Wilhelm Reich

General Survey
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

Life

“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.”

Wilhelm Reich book The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Section 3 : Work Democracy versus Politics. The Natural Social Forces for the Mastery of the Emotional Plague.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy

Love , Life , Democracy , Knowledge

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

Wilhelm Reich

Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. II : Peer Gynt

“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.”

Wilhelm Reich

The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

Life , Hostility , Science

“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.”

Wilhelm Reich

Ether, God and Devil (1949)

Study

“Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.”

Wilhelm Reich

Writings (19 April 1951)

“This sentence makes me hesitate. I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate, because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the truth about you is dangerous to life.”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

Life , Truth

“The absolute and static were even taken over by such dynamically oriented psychological schools as the Freudian in the form of the permanent unconscious ideas. In Jung, the unconscious psychic life was enlarged to the static "racial unconscious" and to the static "collective unconscious". Along with the static viewpoint, these psychologies took over the idea of guilt, even after their separation from philosophy. In so doing, they fell into a cul de sac from which there was no way out.”

Wilhelm Reich

On Jungian psychology, in Ch. 2 : "The Two Basic Pillars of Human Thinking: "God" and "Ether".
Ether, God and Devil (1949)

Life , School , Way , Idea

“I have never heard you complain: "You promote me to be the future master of myself and the world, but you don't tell me how one is to be the master of oneself, and you don't tell me the mistakes in my thinking and my actions."”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

World , Thinking , Future

“The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery, and neurotically impotent rebelliousness.”

Wilhelm Reich

General Survey
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)

Fear , Nature

“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…”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

Life , Soul , Time , Heart

“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.”

Wilhelm Reich

Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique

“You let men in power assume power "for the Little Man". But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded.”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

Men , People , Evil