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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "