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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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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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.
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.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.