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

— Wilhelm Reich

Liebe, Arbeit und Wissen sind die Quellen unseres Lebens. Sie sollen es auch regieren.
His personal motto; the German phrase is found in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1971 [1933]); the English translation was used at least as early as The Function of the Orgasm (1948), a translation of Die Funktion des Orgasmus (1927).

Original

Liebe, Arbeit und Wissen sind die Quellen unseres Daseins. Sie sollen es auch regieren.

Motto auf dem Vorsatzblatt der meisten deutschen Ausgaben von Reichs Büchern, die 1966 und später erschienen, zitiert in "Die Sexuelle Revolution". Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt/M 1999, 15. Auflage, ISBN 3-596-26749-8, S. 7, erstmals veröffentlicht in "Die Funktion des Orgasmus" 1927
Variant: Liebe, Arbeit und Wissen sind die Quellen unseres Lebens. Sie sollen es auch regieren.

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