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

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

" 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. "

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

" Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. "

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

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

" The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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