Peter L. Berger book The Social Construction of Reality
(1991, p. 202)
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966
Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter One
Peter L. Berger book The Social Construction of Reality
(1991, p. 202)
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966
Stephen Jay Gould book Ever Since Darwin
"Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism", p. 251
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
Source: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst
General Survey
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Context: Nature and culture, instinct and morality, sexuality and achievement become incompatible as a result of the split in the human structure. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural (orgastic) sexual gratification.
Esther Perel (1958) Belgian Psychotherapist and Author
Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Stephen Jay Gould book Eight Little Piggies
Source: Eight Little Piggies (1993) "Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness", p. 282
“When I say "animal," I do not mean anything bad, cruel or "base"; I am stating a biological fact.”
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
Context: MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?
When I say "animal," I do not mean anything bad, cruel or "base"; I am stating a biological fact. Man has developed the peculiar concept that he is not an animal at all, but, well — man; a creature which long since has shed that which is "bad," which is "animal." He demarcates himself in all possible ways from the bad animal and points, in proof of his "being better," to culture and civilization which distinguish him from the animal. He shows, in his whole behavior, his "theories of values," his moral philosophies, his "monkey trials" and such, that he does not want to be reminded of the fact that basically he is an animal, an animal, furthermore, which has much more in common with the "animal" than with that being which he asserts to be and dreams of being. The theory of the German Übermensch has this origin. Man shows by his maliciousness, his inability to live in peace with his kind, his wars, that what distinguishes him from the other animals is only his unbounded sadism and the mechanical trinity of the authoritarian concept of life, mechanistic science and the machine. If one looks at the results of civilization as they present themselves over long periods of time, one finds that these contentions of man are not only erroneous; more than that, they seem to be made expressly for the purpose of making man forget that he is an animal.
Yehuda Ashlag (1886–1954) Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist
i.e. still, vegetative, and animate
Introduction to the Book of Zohar, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, p. 94.
Introduction to the Book of Zohar
Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.65