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A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but t...  
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.  
Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has ...  
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to o...  
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept...  
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.  
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all othe...  
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?  
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ...   Love
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain t...   Love
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it m...  
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twe...  
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is inco...  
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodi...  
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human ...  
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the ...  
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which h...  
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he...  
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be b...  
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.  
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened ve...  
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventi...  
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in ar...  
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the f...   Society
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even...  
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. ...  
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.  
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mank...  
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to...  
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a cr...   Politics
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be ab...  
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.  
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out wit...  
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by t...  
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.  
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feel...  
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without hav...  
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet bo...  
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothin...   Dreams
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is tha...  
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a...  
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing...   Life
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children...   Education