By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts - but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, are experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of th…

We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them …

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embr…

The first thing I remember about the world:is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides th…

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.