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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. "

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

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

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

" There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. "

" Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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