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

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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

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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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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.

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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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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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