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Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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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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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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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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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.
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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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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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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.
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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.
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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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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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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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.
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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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.
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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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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
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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.