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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. "

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" 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. "

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

" Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

Meaning Of Life

" We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. "

" 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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" Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. "