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" As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. "
Social
Wears
Ladder
" 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. "
Person
Quality
Looks
" 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. "
Dreams
Busy
Great
" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "
Courage
Let Go
Go
" Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. "
Effort
Pit
Need
" 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. "
Only
Love
Love Is
" If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? "
Who
Am
Brainy
" Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' "
Love
I Love You
You
" In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. "
Become
Two
Remain
" In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. "
Dead
Problem
Man
" 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. "
Just
Embrace
Love Is
" Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "
Equality
Process
Man
" Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. "
Love Is
Value
Two
" Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. "
Love
Problem
Existence
" Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. "
Integrity
Self
Own
" Man always dies before he is fully born. "
He
Born
Death
" Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. "
Existence
Own
Problem
" Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. "
Man
Condition
Culture
" 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. "
Life
Man
Personality
" Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. "
Most
Before
Born
" Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. "
Mother
Love
Peace
" Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. "
Gives
Who
He
" One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. "
Cannot
Without
World
" Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. "
Only
Faith
Faithful
" Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. "
Within
Only
Frame
" Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. "
Selfish
Loving
Either
" The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. "
Science
Creation
Capacity
" The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. "
Society
Future
May
" The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. "
Human Nature
Man
Nature
" 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. "
Child
Relationship
Mom
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