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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

Meaning Of Life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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