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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. "

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

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

" There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meaning Of Life

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

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

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

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

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