Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

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To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

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The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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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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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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