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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- Capacity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- Creativeness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020