To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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