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" In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. "

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" There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. "

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" The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. "

" Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. "

" Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? "

" 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. "

" The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. "

" One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. "

" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "

" 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. "

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. "

" Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. "

" To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. "

" The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. "

" 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. "

" What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. "

" If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? "

" The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. "

" The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. "

" Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. "

" 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. "

" Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. "

" The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. "

" Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' "

" 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. "

" There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. "

" 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 as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "