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Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
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.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
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.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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