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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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