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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. "

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

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "