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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
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The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
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.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
