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Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
The Art of Loving (1956)
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
Man for Himself (1947)
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Escape from Freedom (1941)
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Man for Himself (1947)
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Man for Himself (1947)
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Man for Himself (1947)
Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968)
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The Art of Loving (1956)
Selfishness and self-love, far from being identical, are actually opposites.
Man for Himself (1947)
Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Escape from Freedom (1941)
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The Art of Loving (1956)
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Man for Himself (1947)
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
It is time to cease to argue about God, and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
The Art of Loving (1956)
In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.
The Art of Loving (1956)
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
The Art of Loving (1956)
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
The Sane Society (1955)
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Noah benShea (2001)