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- While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything,…
- Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware…
- The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
- The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
- But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the…
- It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
- The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
- Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
- Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
- Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges…
- The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must…
- 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…
- Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
- Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the…
- Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of…
- I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it,…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster