Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.