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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Meaning Of Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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