“I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create…”
Credo (1965)
Context: I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man’s capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy.
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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980Related quotes
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22 February 1942.
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)
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“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
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Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
"Badlands"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)