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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is…
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is…
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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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I need you because I love you.
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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world…
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Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
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Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the…
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Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
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Giving is the highest expression of potency.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
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Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the…
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
— John Buchanan Robinson
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Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.…
— Charles Kingsley
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I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it…
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If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who…
— Milan Kundera
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,…
— Erich Fromm
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There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and…
— Paul Bourget
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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