Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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