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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'
Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.
True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.