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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

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Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

By Erich Fromm
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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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'

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If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

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Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

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A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

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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 it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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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.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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

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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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